Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Burnham has engineered substantial flows of Western aid (including $47 million pledged in the past four years from the U.S.) by warning against the perils of a victory by his Communist rival, Dr. Cheddi Jagan, 62, who was Guyana's Premier between 1957 and 1964. Particularly helpful was a $125 million credit line approved by the International Monetary Fund last July. Burnham has also sought favor with African and Communist bloc countries by nationalizing 80% of the Guyanese economy, including bauxite mines once owned by Alcan and Reynolds Metals. Although Guyana still has close relations with Cuba, Burnham promptly...
Gaudet, the Ivy's premier goalie for the past two years, kicked and scrambled for 34 saves on the evening, as the Crimson outshot the visitors in every period...
...tape, Dixon coasted in with ease, with a two-and-one-half-second lead over the second-place finisher, and a 3:55.6 time. Lake dropped far back and did not place. Afterward, Lake, who many consider one of the East's premier runners, collapsed in exhaustion on the inside margin of the track...
Columbia lost sight of the Crimson in just the second event when its All-American sophomore. Tony Corbisiero, found himself swamped in the 1000-yd. free by a Harvard threesome of Ted Chappell, Courtney Roberts and Larry Countryman. Chappell, also one of the aquamen's premier butterflyers, switched on his smooth stroke at the very beginning, took the lead he never relinquished, and cruised into the finish...
...week run, into a national obsession. Nicholas Nickleby helped to right those vexing money matters, became a rallying point for yet another of those renaissances in British theater that occur as regularly as breaks in the weather and, not incidentally, reconfirmed the R.S.C. as the country's premier theater company. If one wanted to go even further and claim that the R.S.C. was the greatest company anywhere just now, the arguments would be inconclusive, but the evidence would be weighted in favor of the affirmative...