Word: reigning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Presiding over this reign of terror was a three-man presidential council, which took power after Khomeini ousted Banisadr. The council's chief member, Supreme Court President Ayatullah Mohammed Beheshti, has gradually emerged as the strongest of the three, by virtue of his leadership of the clergy-controlled Islamic Republic Party (I.R.P.), the dominant political party in Iran. The other council members were Parliamentary Speaker Hojatolislam Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Prime Minister Mohammed Ali Raja'i, who has assumed Banisadr's presidential functions until the July elections, when an I.R.P. candidate is expected...
...possess values of responsibility and respect for others," he says. "The threat the military government sees is that we are raising the consciousness of the people, that the people have a right to a voice and vote in their own destiny." During the Bolivian dictatorship's current reign of terror, a number of priests have been beaten up or jailed, and others have fled. Troops demolished the Maryknoll radio station and printing press in Riberalta...
...that of Superman. At the White House they receive an unconditional surrender from a cowering President (who looks alarmingly like Sen. Howard Baker of Tennessee), and aided by the enterprising earth-bound villian, Lex Luthor, they set out to find the only being standing between them and a happy reign of pain and degredation...
Implicit in the title of "tennis champion" is a certain code of behavior emphasizing patience, dignity, generosity, and courage. Stan Smith possessed these qualities during his brief reign at the top of the world rankings. Arthur Ashe rarely questioned a call and certainly never called an umpire a "fool" before thousands of fans. Further back, men like Laver and Rosewall exemplified these virtues, as did the countless female champions of the century. Today, the dominant force in men's tennis--Bjorn Borg--carries himself with the pride of a man who never has to whine for a point...
Foes boycott an election called by Marcos to solidify his reign...