Word: megalomania
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...people in America. The media has given less coverage to such issues as the Social Security crisis and the sky-rocketing costs of health care, since the election, and, as people turn their attention away from Reagan's wounds and Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig's megalomania, they probably won't think about reductions in support for old people...
...Grossenvahn-which means megalomania in English-is also full of harmless hangers-on, who argue for hours about the genius of some current exhibit, or the outrage of a brash new painter. But to learn anything about art at the Grossenvahn, you should be quiet and listen to the people of actual achievement who frequent the cafe. They will be your best teachers in Munich because there are no summer courses or supervised museum programs offered anywhere...
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...force to be reckoned with throughout the region. At times, in fact, his behavior seems oddly reminiscent of the ousted Iranian monarch-his largesse with the nation's new-found oil wealth, for example, and in his touches of self-esteem that some critics say verge on megalomania. Saddam's portrait hangs everywhere in Iraq, from coffeehouses to supermarket check-out counters. Poets eulogize him in the press ("Since there was an Iraq, you were its awaited, its promised one"). Every evening Iraqis are treated to a film of their President strolling through factories, bouncing babies...
...Muslim followers by the gambling casinos, bars and discothéques that seemed the most visible result of Westernization. (One of the Shah's last prime ministers also stopped annual government subsidies to the mullahs.) Almost everybody hated the police terror and sneered in private at the Shah's Ozymandian megalomania, symbolized by a $100 million fete he staged at Persepolis in 1971 to celebrate the 2,500 years of the Persian Empire. In fact, the Shah's father was a colonel in the army when he overthrew the Qajar dynasty in 1925, and as Khomeini pointed out angrily from exile...