Word: ancien
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...only the conclusion of the first, more moderate stage of the Revolution. They say that the past is the best predictor of the future—and if history is any indicator, we can predict Handsome Dan XVI’s imminent decapitation and the eventual fall of the ancien regime. After all, they also say that those who don’t know their history are doomed to repeat it—and who at Yale knows anything...
...accretion of appalling images, coolly observed: the pavement before the National Bank of Cambodia strewn with bales of newly worthless bank notes; a former Prime Minister's wife trying to throw her baby over the embassy fence, before she is led away to be executed; a prince of the ancien r?gime, wearing his Legion of Honor medal, being turned away from the gate...
...under Paris. It was constructed from 1786-1788 before the French Revolution for reasons of public health. The cemeteries in Paris were overcrowded and they had to move the bodies. I’m trying to look at the construction of catacombs as metaphors for the fall of the ancien régime...
...crash and burn. At PCCW's first announcement of its consolidated earnings last week, the company revealed that it wrote down $22 billion dollars in goodwill and was now, technically, insolvent. Li, who built his reputation on nouveau wheeling and dealing, has been reduced to that most mundane of Ancien Economy worries?squeezing cash out of his very real assets to pay his very real debts. Mr. Li, congratulations, you now own a phone company. And while you're here in the Old Economy?or let's call it the economy, shall we??we've got a few coal mines...
...election Puritans offer a laundry-list of reforms--a campaign-finance overhaul, mandatory voting and an improvement in what one watchdog group calls the "quality of the campaign discourse." Otherwise, these storm crows warn, American democracy will wither away and vanish, like the dodo and France's ancien regime...