Word: premiered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other team can match our offensive weapons," Freed said. "Zimmerman and Alexander solidified their position as the premier two-meter men on the East Coast...
...these days of reckoning, however, it is more likely that he will be remembered by cartoon depictions of him wearing a pirate's black eye patch. Though he reigned as one of Italy's premier financial magicians during the 1980s, he had become only the latest of more than 2,500 business leaders and politicians to be implicated in Italy's omnivorous corruption scandal. But having lost his empire, his power and now his honor, the thought of a prison cell was apparently too much for him. Lying on a bed in his 18th century Milan palazzo two weeks...
Considerably more is at stake this fall. NBC, the premier late-night comedy network for almost 40 years, has a daunting challenger in Letterman. The late- , night game could be a fall classic this year, but the Barry Bonds of talk- show comedy doesn't "hold a grudge" against his old team. "I've had a little remorse," he said with uncharacteristic introspection. "Certainly no acrimony." The night before his last NBC show, Letterman recalled, "Bob Wright came up to the office, and we sat and we talked for about an hour. And he gave me some very nice gifts...
...little historical orientation: during the wild and heady days of Beatlemania, the premier rock group back in the U.S.A. was the Beach Boys. They were chart heavyweights but a little slight in the Serious Interest department: too light, too pop, too California. Then came Pet Sounds, a 1966 album that got glowing notices, heavy sales and -- crucial for the band's hipness quotient -- an awed response from the Beatles, particularly from Paul McCartney...
What do you do when your banking system is overwhelmed by capitalist symptoms like cash shortages, a depreciating currency and rampant credit expansion? You blame your top banker. The designated scapegoat is Li Guixian, governor of the People's Bank of China. He will be replaced -- temporarily -- by Vice Premier Zhu Rongji, the man in charge of China's economy...