Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drama unfolds in Congress, a pivotal role belongs to House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dan Rostenkowski. It is a rich bit of casting: for the next few weeks, an old-style Chicago ward heeler will be the nation's premier economist-accountant-social philosopher...
...tensions are also exacerbated by a slump in tourism, the state's premier industry ($2.6 billion in 1979). The number of tourists dropped last year for the first time since 1949, and the visitor count during the first quarter of 1981 was down 5% from the same period in 1980. Many native Hawaiians work in hotels, stores and other tourist-dependent businesses, and the fall-off has encouraged the state government to boost efforts to diversify the economy...
...capacity as mayor of Paris, and several Communist members of Parliament. Most conspicuous were the scores of Socialists who had assembled to witness their leader's triumph, such as Lionel Jospin, Mitterrand's successor as party chief, and Pierre Mendès-France, 74, former Socialist Premier in whose Cabinet Mitterrand served from June 1954 to February...
Minutes later, Mitterrand's first Cabinet choice was announced. Pierre Mauroy, 52, the mayor of the northern industrial city of Lille and longtime Socialist Party stalwart, was named Premier in the interim government that will rule until the parliamentary elections take place next month. Other ministerial appointments announced later in the week included some familiar names in the hierarchy of the Socialist Party. The new Foreign Minister will be Claude Cheysson, 61, the architect of the European Community's liberal Third World trade policy. Banker Jacques Delors, 55, once a key adviser to former Gaullist Premier Jacques Chaban...
François Mitterrand needed a moderate Premier who could reassure a nation still caught uneasily between jubilation and the jitters over the novelty of a Socialist in the Elysée Palace. But he could not accept another bloodless technocrat of the kind that he had criticized in the Giscard regime. He needed a political figure with a popular touch. No one fit that description better than Pierre Mauroy, 52. The big (6 ft. 2 in.) burly mayor of the northern industrial center of Lille, Mauroy (pronounced Mawr-wah) is an archetypal man of the north, pragmatic, hardworking...