Word: premiered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Karpov, winner of 77 major international tournaments, is the second best chess player in the world. The world's premier chess master, Gary Kasparov, also a Soviet, visited Harvard for a series of matches last fall...
...seem to have gotten sidetracked; this is a letter of recommendation, not a lament. Admittedly, I am not a premier academic, but I am better acquainted with this student's academic progress than any other authority, save perhaps his mother. I have followed his academic progress for over twenty years now, from his tens tables to last semester's electives. He has done well, but recently has developed a complex: he fancies himself a cog in a great machine, an 8-digit number in a vast academic apparatus...
...Chinese were taken in by their government's maneuver. "Maybe ending martial law is good for international relations," said a history major at Peking University, "but there will always be soldiers and plainclothes police around." Despite Premier Li Peng's claim that "a great victory has been won in . . . quelling the counterrevolutionary rebellion," his government remains extremely wary of any revival of the protests...
Khmer Rouge guerrillas claimed they attacked the Cambodian capital with grenades Saturday night, forcing the premier and president to flee toward Vietnam. But the claim could not be confirmed, and previous communist Khmer Rouge claims have been exaggerated...
Biggest Letdowns. Kodak's disk cameras took fuzzy pictures. RJR's Premier, the so-called smokeless cigarette, tasted like burning plastic. New Coke wasn't the real thing. The Pontiac Fiero caught on fire, literally, then flamed out. Home banking via personal computer was for nerds. All-suite hotels went up, then stood vacant. And portfolio insurance may have helped cause the crash...