Word: monumentalize
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After nearly two decades of his rule, Egypt is something less than a monument to enlightened rule. By 1980, because of a scarcely controllable population explosion, there will be 50 million Egyptians; yet the country today lacks the industrial base to support half that population. "This people is today no less poor than in Farouk's days," notes Israel's Deputy Premier Allon, "and some say it is even poorer." Not until the interminable drain of the war with Israel has been stanched is the country likely to emerge from the backwardness that persisted under Nasser. "If it does," writes...
Papanek said in defense of present Indonesian policy that reversal of Sukarno's extravagant monument-building program-in combination with a resumption of large-scale American aid-has brought about significant economic improvement...
Other donations to the University, not included in the "annual" giving, are ordinarily restricted gifts to endow chairs, build buildings, or otherwise assure the donor with a permanent monument at Harvard. The University did not release figures on those donations...
...U.P.I.'s Helen Thomas and A.P.'s Frances Lewine, among the fiercest rivals in the entire Washington press corps. But both, by their normal standards, were considerably subdued in the royal presence. Miss Thomas asked Anne only one question: how she liked the view at the Washington Monument. When the Princess frostily replied, "I do not give interviews," Miss Thomas uncharacteristically gave...
...Washington with the United States, Commencing June 1775, and ending June 1783, Comprehending a Space of 8 Years." It was published in 1833 by the Chief Clerk in the Register's Office of the Treasury Department. Eight years later it reappeared under different auspices with the title "A Monument to Washington's Patriotism." Coauthor Kitman came across this historical curiosity at the New York Public Library while he was researching a proposed epic entitled The Making of the Prefident...