Word: magnas
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...procedures that once seemed unattainable. Among other things, U.S. inspectors will mount an on-the-scene, round-the-clock vigil at a Soviet missile-assembly plant near the Ural Mountains to see what goes in and comes out; Soviet watchdogs will do the same at a U.S. plant in Magna, Utah. With that issue settled, Reagan and Gorbachev on Tuesday afternoon can stage the grand signing ceremony for the INF (intermediate nuclear forces) treaty that is the ostensible reason for the summit...
...first constitutional landmark dates back to King John's acceptance at Runnymede in 1215 of Magna Carta, which established limits on the power of the monarch. The House of Commons, which together with the House of Lords makes up Parliament, has its origins in Simon de Montfort's first gathering of commoners in 1265. Another prominent date is 1689, when Parliament passed a Bill of Rights guaranteeing freedom of elections and parliamentary debate...
...America tends to be more sophisticated than most architecture of the day. Most of it was English, since America itself was mostly English. Just as American dissident patriots in the 1770s proudly claimed to be rebelling against George III in the name of the "true" British values of the Magna Carta and the Glorious Revolution of 1688, so American craftsmen in the 18th and early 19th century appealed to British norms of design; there was not much talk about "American" culture, and to most people the idea would not have made sense...
Ueno has a more pragmatic goal for the years at Columbia. Working on a Master's Degree in European history and possibly toward a Ph.D. in that field, she will decide whether she would like to continue in academia or go on to Law School. A Magna Cum Laude degree candidate in the all-honors History and Literature concentration, she readily admits that "for me, my primary commitment was always academics," and feels a strong emotional pull in the direction of the ivory tower...
Academics also played a big role in his life as Jewett graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa after writing a thesis on diplomatic history. His topic was negotiations among the great powers in the 1890s. Jewett received additional diplomatic education from his work on the precursor of the model...