Word: premieres
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Although the new program will introduce some changes in the Soviet Union's rigidly centralized economy, it falls well short of the reforms that have made Hungary a model of efficiency by Communist standards. Nor does the policy break new ground when compared with Premier Alexei Kosygin's largely unsuccessful effort to decentralize Soviet industry in the 1960s. It might take years before the changes could be applied outside the factories that were singled out last week. Said a Western diplomat: "Andropov is gently approaching the tricky question of how to decentralize a state-run economy...
Indeed, the lifting of martial law will have a negligible effect on most Poles. Earlier in the week, the Sejm approved a constitutional amendment that gave the government substantial new powers. The Premier was granted the authority to declare a state of emergency whenever necessary, and the definition of "antistate activities" was broadened. In addition parliament passed several measures that would apply during a 29-month "transition" period. It set the official work week at 48 hours, eliminating the free Saturdays won by Solidarity. It also gave the government the right to force people who quit their jobs to take...
...Japan's premier director alone...
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher indicated as much in a letter last February to Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang. The letter did not explicitly concede sovereignty, which London wants to hold as a bargaining chip, but it did, in the words of a Western diplomat, send the Chinese "a very broad signal." As the diplomat loosely paraphrased it, the letter said: "We know you will gain sovereignty, but before we put things down in black and white let's see what you have in mind for administering Hong Kong...
...sizzling swing-era trumpet section in 1937. Two years later, after forming his own band, James discovered young Frank Sinatra, who left (to join Tommy Dorsey) before the band's romantic 1941 hit recording of You Made Me Love You established James as one of the premier swingmen during World War II. His fame hit its peak in 1943, when he married America's No. 1 pinup, Betty Grable (from whom he was divorced 22 years later). Despite the many subsequent changes in popular taste, James held a band together for 40 years, playing his final...