Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more money than it spends at home. As a result, the Japanese are sending the funds back overseas by making loans, buying foreign stocks and bonds, and building factories in countries around the globe. Once merely a master manufacturer, Japan is on the way to becoming the world's premier investor and creditor. Its economic and financial clout could eventually rival the power held by Britain in the 19th century and the U.S. after World...
...Titled Building China with Socialist Characteristics, the 72-page booklet stressed productivity as the solution to China's ills. According to Deng, every worker must "find a thousand and one . ways to make the country prosperous," because "when our state is powerful, all will be well." A day later Premier Zhao Ziyang announced in a speech that the rigid wage system for government workers would be loosened to reflect individual merit. Combined with the government's plans for imminent price decontrol through the removal of state subsidies, these policies represented the most sweeping--and riskiest--steps yet in the piecemeal...
...basic items as rice and clothes will skyrocket. Hardest hit would be the country's 80 million urban workers, who still have less opportunity for earning extra money than the peasants. "That's all the Chinese talk about now," said a British teacher working at a major Peking university. Premier Zhao last week dismissed rumors of impending price rises as "street gossip," but the fact that the government has not revealed how and when the price strategy will go into effect only makes consumers more nervous...
...After the French withdrew 3,000 paratroopers from Chad between last September and November, Mitterrand discovered that, contrary to the agreement with Gaddafi, a substantial number of Libyan troops remained. A chagrined President was forced to fly to Crete to confront Gaddafi, a move that was denounced by former Premier Maurice Couve de Murville as "the greatest humiliation that France has suffered for a long time." Mitterrand has been hurt as well by public concern over the still simmering separatist revolt in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia...
...President's TV defense overshadowed Premier Laurent Fabius' ringing final admonition to the Socialist convention, in which he declared: "It is absolutely essential to avoid turning back, to avoid the reaction sought by the right, which would bring this country economic traumas and social shocks." Fabius asked, "Does this country really want the right to come back?" To stir combative Socialist spirits, the Premier challenged two of the opposition leaders, Neo-Gaullist Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac and center-right former Premier Raymond Barre, to television debates. Both declined. With a semblance of party unity restored, delegates could agree...