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Word: premieres (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...July 7, the Harvard men's heavyweight crew won the premier event at the world's premier rowing regatta for the first time in more than a quarter of a century...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: How Grand! | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

While most Harvard athletes were vacationing, the Men's Varsity Crew team was off in England busy winning the world's premier rowing regatta. The Crimson took the Grand Challenge Cup at the 140th annual Henley Rowing Regatta in Henley-on-Thames with a three-and-two-thirds lengths victory over Ivy League rival Princeton in the first all-American final in 18 years. Harvard had not won the prestigious event since...

Author: By Compiled CHRISTOPHER J. georges and Thomas J. Winslow., S | Title: While You Were Away | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

...glass-walled corner office off the Boston Globe newsroom, Michael Janeway, 45, talks about the doubts he had before he took the helm of New England's premier newspaper eight months ago. "I went through a period when I even wondered if I should take the job," says Janeway, carefully picking his words. "I wondered about my leadership, about whether a leader could also be a constructive critic. But I decided if you're going to do it, you can't do it as Hamlet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Education of a Newspaper Editor: Michael Janeway | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

...emerged from his office at 72 Rue de Varenne on Paris' Left Bank, climbed into his Peugeot and was driven 150 yards to No. 57, the Matignon palace. There he was quickly escorted to a second-floor office, where, on a Louis XV desk, in front of Premier Laurent Fabius, he placed a folder containing 29 typewritten pages. After a 20-minute conversation, the man left, and the Premier began studying the document. The 17-day labor of Bernard Tricot, Charles de Gaulle's former chief of staff, was finished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France Innocent Agents | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

...band formed in Providence in 1974, when Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz, students at the Rhode Island School of Design, fell in with David Byrne, occasional student and otherworldly wit. Moving a couple of hundred miles south, and joining up with Keyboard Player Jerry Harrison, they became the premier house band for New York City's young artistic community. Artist Robert Longo even inserted a life-size cutout of Byrne, the group's lead singer and driving force, into a construction called Heads Will Roll. "Neo-expressionism" was the buzz word for this kind of art, and, for a while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Heads Are Rolling | 9/2/1985 | See Source »

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