Word: premieres
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...Regents in private, without the opportunity for any meaningful public scrutiny or debate. The plan was apparently to honor Summers as an “expert” on higher education by giving him privileged access to the governing body of one of the world’s premier public educational institutions...
...year ago, at the party's 2006 convention, many delegates sounded battle-ready: they were squaring up to their own colleagues. Supporters of Tony Blair, then still Premier but openly planning his departure, were at loggerheads with the adherents of his rival, Brown. "It was a pretty toxic event," Jon Cruddas, an MP on the left of the party, told a meeting in Bournemouth. He said he feared that Labour "was approaching free fall...
...Party of the Regions (PR) led by Victor Yanukovych - the Moscow ally who had lost the presidential race to Yushchenko - won a 32% plurality of the votes in the legislative election. The BYUT party of Yuliya Tymoshenko, erstwhile flamboyant princess of the Orange Revolution who had been fired as premier by Yushchenko six months earlier, finished second. Yushchenko's Our Ukraine (OU) barely made the third place...
...Political paralysis followed as the squabbling Orange leaders failed to mend their fences, leaving Yanukovych to build a legislative majority coalition to elect him premier. As Orange deputies defected en masse to the Yanukovych-led coalition, it threatened to grow powerful enough to marginalize the President. Yuschenko responded by dissolving the legislature and calling a new election...
...That is not to be confused with Mousel, which is one of Luxembourg’s premier breweries...