Word: dominione
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...Utter dominion over an industry, which IBM enjoyed from the 1960s to the 1980s, rarely lasts so long. Now that it is waning, perhaps the company should be congratulated for maintaining its role as long as it did rather than criticized for letting it finally diminish. And before anyone organizes a benefit dinner, remember that IBM was America's most profitable industrial company last year, earning more than $6 billion. Its profit will likely decline this year, but the company remains huge, powerful and full of talent. In the realm of computers, it is not what it was. But underestimating...
Charles Krauthammer agrees, and then some. He favors nothing less than a U.S.-led "universal dominion . . . a unipolar world whose center is a confederated West." While neither he nor any of the other contributors have much good to say about the U.N., Krauthammer welcomes an incipient "new supersovereignty" embodied by cooperative international mechanisms like the Group of Seven industrial democracies. That notion sends Buchanan into fulminations two chapters later...
Each week brings a new installment in the fight for the survival of an ancient culture in a modern age and for dominion over lands lost a century ago. Above all, Native Americans wish to preserve the right to practice their religion, enforce their laws and educate their children without interference. Says Scott Borg, an Albuquerque attorney who regularly represents Native Americans: "The U.S. government has no more right telling the Pueblos how to run their internal affairs than does a country like Iraq to tell Kuwait how to run its internal affairs...
Democrats wrested governorship from the GOP in Texas, Florida and four other states yesterday in midterm elections that sealed a saason of Republican disappointment. Democrats also expanded their dominion of Congress in returns that heavily favored the incumbents...
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