Word: imperiale
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Defining how Mitterrand won his mandate, and what it really means, was not entirely clear even to the French, who delight in precise analysis. The most likely explanation was that the French, alarmed by rising inflation and unemployment, and tired of Gisçard's imperial style, had simply voted for...
The problem would never have come up, of course, if Jimmy Carter had not sold the Sequoia in one of his paroxysms of anti-imperial budget cutting. Carter got only $286,000 for the old yacht that had served American Presidents since Hoover, but it was the symbolism of the...
The Roman Catholic Church is a far-flung hierarchy, ruled from the top. As Pope, John Paul II runs both Vatican and church with imperial power. But the autonomous city-state from which he governs is one of the oldest and most organized bureaucracies. If the Pope dies, administrative power...
The target of the multifaceted protest last week was an 82-page document Howe had extracted from its battered red case: Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's severely austere new budget, which she insisted "laid a solid foundation for sustained revival of the British economy." Ignoring urgent pleas for relief...
Meanwhile, the Soviet Union has transformed its military power "from a continental and largely defensive land army to a global offensive army, navy and air force fully capable of supporting an imperial foreign policy." With the help of