Word: primes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...very much a self- made man. After graduating from high school, he worked for his father's employer by day and acquired degrees in law and economics at night. Politically, he has operated both sides of the fence. From 1969 to 1972 he worked as an adviser to Gaullist Prime Minister Jacques Chaban-Delmas, and from 1981 to 1984 he served as Socialist President Francois Mitterrand's Economy and Finance Minister. When in Paris, Delors lives with wife Marie in a five-room apartment near the Gare de Lyons. They have one married daughter Martine; their only son Jean Paul...
...promise of a more prosperous and safer era, the recent past seems impossibly remote. Only a few years ago, the area's decline seemed assured. Euro-Communists loomed large, Spain's infant democracy was threatened by a military coup, and terrorists operated so boldly that a former Italian Prime Minister was kidnaped and murdered. West Europeans seemed trapped in a twilight zone of economic entropy and declining international influence. After the deep OPEC-induced recession that ushered in the 1980s, millions of workers remained sidelined, victims of an affliction dubbed Eurosclerosis -- a hardening of the business arteries caused by overregulation...
...biggest dream has come true," said Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki, also of Solidarity, after his Cabinet was approved by a vote of 402 in favor, none against and 13 abstentions...
...baton in his knapsack. As an editor, I wasn't fishing for sensational stories. I was always aware of my paper's political responsibilities, so I don't feel uncomfortable changing jobs. Of course it is different being editor of a 500,000-circulation newspaper and being a Prime Minister. At first I felt as if a great rock were put on my shoulders. Someone wrote that during the confirmation vote, I looked like a condemned man waiting for his sentence to be passed. When I looked at myself on TV, I saw a stranger. Only now am I beginning...
...emergence of a Solidarity Prime Minister in Poland is only the latest they-said-it-couldn't-happen event in the Communist world. Confronted with so much that was so recently unthinkable, some Western intellectuals are showing signs of giddiness bordering on nuttiness...