Word: premiered
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...luck holds out and he doesn't squander his opportunity, Clinton could walk away with the big prize--a deal that reflects his essential beliefs and robs Dole of his premier campaign issue. House Republican leaders are contemplating a last-chance offer that could attract bipartisan support: cutting $155 billion in Medicare, providing targeted tax cuts worth $180 billion, fattening the pool of discretionary spending a bit to woo liberals, and then getting in line behind the Senate's more moderate welfare-reform plan. If that plan goes nowhere with Clinton, Republicans will try to spend the next two weeks...
ATHENS: Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou resigend his post Monday after two months in the hospital for pneumonia and heart trouble, each day of which created new speculation that he was near death. Under its constitution, the ruling socialist party now has three days to elect a new premier. The top contenders for his post are two economists, Defense Minister Gerasimos Arsenis and former Industry Minister Costas Simitis. The 76-year-old Papandreou, who has been on and off life support, reportedly signed the resignation from his hospital bed in Athens. He did not quit as head of the party...
...another big demonstration here on Saturday that may draw support from private-sector employees, which could be an indication the strike is going to continue for a while longer," says Paris bureau chief Thomas Sancton. Union leaders hope to draw 2 million people to the rally, and French Premier Alan Juppe has said a turnout that high would cause him to resign...
...applied for this to gain an opportunity to study at one of the premier universities in the United Kingdom," he said...
...local elections. The rebel fighters are not going to be very happy with an occupying army voting in their elections." Chechen rebel leader Jokhar Dudayev, still in hiding in Chechnya's southern mountains, has condemned the election as an illegal contest to legitimize Doku Zavgayev, the Russian-installed Chechen premier. Zavgayev signed an agreement Friday with Russia that gives the region greater freedoms but stops short of full sovereignty. "It's a good step, and it gives Chechnya greater independence than any other region of the country," says Zarakhovich. "But it's too little, too late. It would have made...