Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV decided to seek the pardon of Pope Gregory VII in 1077, he stood barefoot for three days in the snow outside the papal quarters in Canossa, Italy. Gorbachev's concordat with the church was no less significant in its way. But there was a crucial difference: as is so often the case with Gorbachev, he achieved his reconciliation without humiliation. As he had done before, the Soviet leader let the ongoing crisis of the Communist system serve as an opportunity to push his nation toward a broader vision of the future. "We need...
...George Bush prepared to attend Emperor Hirohito's funeral in February, a top aide alerted him to a problem that would once have been considered unworthy of presidential attention. Since Japanese furniture makers are eager for tropical hardwoods, officials in western Brazil hoped that Tokyo would finance the paving of a 500-mile road that would link the Amazon to a Peruvian highway, allowing lumberers to truck their timber directly to Pacific ports. But the plan, Deputy National Security Adviser Robert Gates cautioned the President, would subject the western Amazon to more of the slash-and-burn land clearing that...
...playing field and letting the laws of supply and demand run their course. Not that there is much evidence yet that a province like Guangdong would salute if Beijing insisted that it slow its rush to prosperity. As a Guangdong official says, "When the belly is fat, the emperor is far away." Which is not to say that Guangdong doesn't understand feigned compliance. A visiting Beijing big shot might not be accorded the kind of reception Rob Lowe would get in the girls' locker room of an American high school, but as this Guangdong cadre says, "When the leaders...
...empire continued to nibble at China and estranged itself from the U.S., Chiang's chief supporter and, embarrassingly for Tokyo, the source of most of Japan's strategic materials. National self-strengthening took on fanatical proportions. The state religion built around animist Shinto beliefs was transformed into full-fledged emperor worship. And despite shortages in food and electricity due to the military allocations, the Empire of the Rising Sun believed it was destined to shine over all of East Asia. "Manchuria alone is not enough," wrote navy Lieut. Commander Tota Ishimaru in 1936. "With it alone Japan cannot...
...Karl, Austria's last Emperor (1916-19), Habsburg...