Word: lording
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ever since he started the Hearstian buying spree that made his News Corp. the world's most diverse media company, rivals have been waiting for Rupert Murdoch to overreach and fall. They mocked his ambition to become the first press lord to bestride three continents: Europe, North America and his native Australia, where his holdings account for 60% of total daily-newspaper circulation. They belittled his free-spending plunge into book publishing. They scoffed when he spent more than $2 billion for seven U.S. TV stations, plus a movie studio to provide programs, for his high-risk start...
...Elgin marbles," acquired by Lord Elgin during a period of political turmoil in Greece, might have been destroyed had the British not preserved them. The British also argue that more people can see the friezes in London than would be able to in Athens...
...devout. As President, she is still more likely to open her mouth in prayer than in political double-talk. Showing up for a fiesta at the town of Juigalpa, Chamorro was asked by the local parish priest to say a few words. She replied, "What better words than the Lord's Prayer" and proceeded to lead the crowd in the Paternoster. With just a high school education, she leans for major decisions on what she calls her "sixth sense...
...that lead to prison. "Is incarceration the most rational way to deal with a woman who is a drug addict?" asks commissioner Sielaff. The country would do well to invest in programs for drug abusers, for battered women, for incest survivors and for the children of inmates, says Elaine Lord, superintendent at Bedford. But instead, the nation's prison systems, much like the overburdened school systems, have become the social program of last resort, a catchall for society's neglected troubles. "It's a very expensive way to deal with social problems," notes Lord. And an ineffective one that breeds...
...Lord said that because ousting the hard line government must be a top priority, the Chinese have deemphasized women's issues in the struggle for liberalization...