Word: premiere
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wesley Clark called on Washington to send in the state-of-the-art AH-64 helicopter gunships as the best weapon against Milosevic's ferocious ground-level cleansing of Kosovo. After a week of backroom debate, a deeply reluctant Pentagon and White House agreed to deploy the Army's premier tank killers--but not to use them in battle. More than two weeks later, to great fanfare, the first of 24 began arriving in Albania along with their 5,350 attendant soldiers, where two aircraft crashed, killing two pilots in practice exercises. Top Pentagon officials oppose putting the gunships into...
...really am not attaching a whole lot of significance to the racial aspect," Bundles said. "This is really much more about Johnetta Cole being one of the premier women educators in America...
...more than a year in the early 1980s, Gore cleared eight hours a week on his schedule to study arms control, wheedling the country's premier experts to give him tutorials and ultimately making his mark in the nuclear debate with an idea for the single-warhead missile to stabilize the arms race. Leon Fuerth, a former foreign-service officer who landed on the staff of the House Intelligence Committee, oversaw his education and has remained with Gore since--making Fuerth a force in his own right in the Clinton White House and the presumptive favorite for National Security Adviser...
...Gore in 2000--even against a Texas Governor who has referred to "Grecians" and "Kosovians." When Gore has received attention overseas, it has usually been the kind he didn't want. His badly executed 1997 trip to China produced a series of embarrassments, culminating in a clumsy toast with Premier Li Peng, who had been blamed for the massacre of student protesters at Tiananmen Square. And the greater a role Gore takes in fashioning Clinton foreign policy, the more he is likely to face scorching questions about Chinese espionage and Beijing's campaign contributions. Being the foreign policy Vice President...
Singles play featured the premier No. 1 singles contest on the first day of the championships. Blake, the country's No. 1 singles player, faced Notre Dame's big gun, Ryan Sachire, the third ranked player in the country. In a back-and-forth, three set battle, Blake came out on top as he has for most of the season...