Word: reigning
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...notable exception to the Fed's pattern of austerity was the reign of Chairman Arthur Burns. Despite his reputation as an inflation fighter, Burns sometimes sanctioned stimulative policies. Part of his motivation seems, in Greider's view, to have been political, especially when the chairman expanded the money supply rapidly during Richard Nixon's re-election campaign...
...skeptics overlook Harvard's first-place ECAC reign. They forget that Harvard is ranked fifth in the nation. Instead, these skeptics argue about the team's youth. What about the fact that a freshman goalie has played in every minute of the season due to senior John Devin's injury? Or that freshmen compose one half of Harvard's first two lines? How will these first-year starters respond to a St. Lawrence or a Colgate...
...American people want their President to be God. But a President can't be. The contentious mass in Washington's center is part of Government, and even Presidents cannot reign as its supreme and unyielding ruler...
Living up to the standards set by Nakasone will be difficult. Newspaper commentators have already compared Takeshita unfavorably with the Prime Minister. The five-year reign of the dynamic, much traveled Nakasone put Japan on the world map -- and the rest of the world on Japan's map. Takeshita's slight international experience is a painful shortcoming. His penchant for the slow process of consensus may also be a dangerous anachronism, the product of an age that Tokyo seems to have outgrown. Says Seizaburo Sato, a political scientist at the University of Tokyo: "If Takeshita had been elected...
...true value for Arias will be measured in the days before and after the Nov. 5 cease-fire. "The prize is a catalyst," he says. "It's a stimulus so that we don't lapse in our effort." No one, least of all Arias, believes eternal peace will reign three weeks from now; the Costa Rican President points out that the cease-fire "initiates a process, it doesn't end it." Yet most Central Americans agree that more progress has been made toward peace in the past two months than in the past six years and that Arias deserves...