Word: premieres
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More than ever, the market economy has been in vogue since President Francois Mitterrand's Socialists narrowly lost the national elections last March. Under a complex power-sharing arrangement that the French refer to as cohabitation, Mitterrand has taken the lead in foreign policy while the newly appointed conservative Premier Jacques Chirac has had the greatest influence on domestic matters. The dynamic Chirac wasted no time in launching a sweeping reform of the French economy, which has been slow to join the current recovery in Western Europe...
Stephenson said he expected to find a replacement sometime this month, but added that he realized the difficulty in attracting a prominent statesman in such a short period of time. Names being bandied about by officials as possible replacements include Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, Chinese Premier Deng Xiao Ping, and Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid...
...problem with Reversal of Fortune is that it tries too hard to mix in the sleaze with a balanced, legalistic approach to the trial. In the end, anyone who wanted to know just how Dershowitz--the nation's premier criminal appeals attorney--handled this case would feel a little short shrift, and so would anyone who wanted to read about all the trashy gossip...
...record of having been fired by hospitals in two states, being legally blind in one eye and demonstrating skills that were described by a colleague as those of "a first-year resident," Billig had risen to be chief cardiac surgeon at Bethesda Naval Hospital, one of the nation's premier military medical centers...
...Thursday the Soviets allowed a group of reporters to visit Kiev. They met with Ukrainian Premier Lyashko, who said that a total of 84,000 people had been evacuated from the general vicinity of the plant. The area was cleared in two stages, Lyashko said. The initial move took place within a six-mile zone around the plant that authorities later extended to 18 miles. He added that 230 teams of Soviet medical workers were working outside the cordoned-off sector to aid evacuees...