Word: premieres
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...even though the city's rival to the north, Pittsburgh, calls itself the City of Champions, Philadelphia has certainly taken over as the nation's premier sports city. The Phillies finally won the World Series this year; the Eagles, 76ers and Flyers all currently lead their respective divisions. So start saying it to yourself "Philadelphia: City of Champions." Doesn't sound right, does it? Sort of like "New Jersey: Land of Milk and Honey...
...editors found a country obsessed with the "four modernizations"-the upgrading of industry, agriculture, science and technology, and the military-formally announced by then Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping three years ago. In a radical departure from past practice, local farm and factory managers are increasingly deciding what to produce on the basis of what will make a profit. After filling their state quotas, they have been given considerable freedom to sell some of their products directly to other factories or on the free market, and they keep part of the resulting profits to use as they see fit, primarily...
...VICE PREMIER. "I myself have made revolution my whole life, and I am continuing to make revolution." So said Vice Premier Wan Li, 64, at the beginning of an hourlong meeting in Peking's Great Hall of the People. Wan, a tall, affable, silver-haired man, is widely regarded as the key official below Premier Zhao Ziyang in China's new government. Until early this year he was the governor of Anhui province in the eastern part of China; there, as in Premier Zhao's Sichuan, the new national economic policies were first tested. Wan was brought...
Trudeau has considerable popular support for his plans to bring home the constitution, thanks in part to a $6 million national advertising campaign in the early fall. But so far, only the premiers of Ontario and New Brunswick have promised their backing. Other premiers, including Alberta's Lougheed, are planning court challenges of the Trudeau patriation bill, arguing that it illegally infringes on provincial rights. Quebec Premier René Lévesque is bitterly opposed to the language-rights provision of the charter because it might restrict his province's legislative powers over education. In his view, Trudeau...
...veteran technocrat has little foreign and defense policy experience; he has been known as a Brezhnev protegé ever since the two studied metallurgical engineering at neighboring technical institutes in the Ukraine in the 1930s. He became deputy chairman of GOSPLAN, the state planning committee, in 1963, a Deputy Premier in 1965 and a full member of the Politburo last November. By then, as First Deputy Premier, he had already become Kosygin's virtually full-time standin...