Word: heydays
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...Pyramid of the Moon and flanked by the even larger Pyramid of the Sun and other ceremonial buildings, was the core of a much larger metropolis. Indeed, at 8 sq. mi. and with an estimated population of 150,000, Teotihuacan was the largest city in Mesoamerica in its heyday (about A.D. 500) and one of the six largest in the world--larger even than Rome. Its political power reached all the way to Mayan city-states hundreds of miles away, with outposts as far away as Guatemala...
...judicial rather than political, but the strong human-rights orientation of Tony Blair's Labour government is surely pressing him toward extradition. And if Straw is tempted to let the old dictator go, he faces another roadblock: the once arcane principle of universal jurisdiction. This dates to the heyday of piracy, when any nation could deal with the brigands of the high seas. These days there is considerable agreement that systematic torture and genocide are such heinous crimes that any country should be free to try those who are accused of them. "Some crimes go beyond boundaries," says Robert Pastor...
Video-game makers have been capitalizing on their popular characters since the arcade's heyday (Remember Pac-Man bed sheets?) but have never come close to the level of mass-market merchandising now a habit for movie studios like Disney. That may change. More and more, PC-game companies are peddling their properties outside the virtual realm. The result: toys like this creature from StarCraft, the year's top-selling CD-ROM game. And move over, Barbie: a Lara Croft doll debuts this month. Online Help for Movers...
According to Curator of the Harvard Theatre Collection, Fredric Woodbridge Wilson, the 19th century was the heyday of "exuberant representations of magicians...
...were among the first to see the opportunities. The bull market that began in 1962 was kinder to some companies than to others, leaving many quality firms relatively undervalued and thus takeover targets. "We had a lot of different sources of financing," says Ling, 75, of LTV, in its heyday the 14th largest company in the U.S. "But we usually swapped our companies' stock for [that of] the firms we were buying...