Word: primes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wholesale dissolution of the party leadership left some members with an uneasy sense that no one was in charge. But Prime Minister Hans Modrow seemed in command as he appealed on national television for calm, and the party hastily threw together a temporary 25-member working group to fill the leadership void. On Thursday the first talks between the Communist Party and the opposition yielded agreements to recommend parliamentary elections for May 6 and to rewrite the constitution. In addition, the foundering party advanced an emergency congress by a week to try to restore order and salvage shreds of credibility...
...Protocol, governing the release of ozone-damaging gases, serve the important function of reassuring nations that protecting the environment will not put them at a competitive disadvantage. So far, though, the Bush Administration has squandered the momentum generated by the Montreal agreement. Administration negotiators outraged nations in Africa, a prime dumping ground for hazardous wastes, by opposing important safety provisions in an international agreement on the shipment of toxic refuse...
...addition to the purchase price, the city would have to pay the company prime-rate interest if it exercised its buy-back option. After 10 years, it would cost the city approximately $2 million to repurchase the land, Healy said...
Vellucci questioned the desirability of such an arrangement. He asked the company's attorney if he played craps. When the attorney replied that he did not, Vellucci said, "When you roll the dice, you don't get prime rate back when you lose...
According to some Civic Forum supporters, Komarek is furious that Havel and his colleagues are banking on the political survival of Prime Minister Adamec instead of supporting Komarek for the position. When asked by TIME if he was a candidate for Prime Minister, Komarek responded, "I leave this open. My position personally is very modest. I don't think a well-brought-up person ! should say, 'I want to be Prime Minister.' " Komarek feels that the Civic Forum tends too heavily toward compromise and should instead mount a radical assault on the existing order. "What's needed," he says...