Word: priming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plan to accept the invitations to visit President Bush and Prime Minister Thatcher...
Earlier this month, after a political knock-down-and-drag-out in which the reformers routed the last of the Old Guard, Lukanov emerged as Prime Minister of Bulgaria. He is a key member of a new, Gorbachevite leadership that is liberalizing the economy, is ready to share power with non-Communists and looks likely to do well in the free, multiparty elections it plans to hold in May. It would be nice to say you read about him here first, in a scouting report 17 years ago. But then maybe you wouldn't be reading about...
...environmentalists, the prime suspect in the White House's go-slow approach is chief of staff John Sununu, whose free-market principles put industrial growth ahead of Government regulation...
...prime reason is the severely depressed state of the junk-bond market, where shell-shocked investors are wary of buying new issues. Of nearly $300 million in bonds that were scheduled to be sold this month, virtually every offering has been canceled or postponed. Without the ability to tap the junk market, would-be raiders will no longer be able to take aim at substantial targets...
Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev began the year opposed to German unification but unexpectedly backed East German Prime Minister Hans Modrow's proposal earlier this month for a united, neutral country. Gorbachev then agreed with visiting West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl that unification is something for the Germans to work out among themselves, and he seemed to waver even on the principle of neutrality. Two weeks ago, Kohl proposed a monetary union with East Germany. By last week that suggestion had already become official policy on both sides of what used to be the Berlin Wall...