Word: reigns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Ferraro speaks, then, of a pre-20th century rollback, she is on the mark--literally. The decision by the nation's highest court effectively gives judges--who make the decision to give out warrants--and police officers--who carry them out--free reign to search you or your person at the slightest provocation. As one dissenting justice stated, this move threatens to undermine the entire warrant process because it does not force police or magistrates to prove there is just cause for a search...
Jayne Anne Phillips' wondering, musing first novel raises such questions without ever explicitly stating them, in a way that suggests another fine family por trait, last year's During the Reign of the Queen of Persia by Joan Chase. In a man ner that seems simple and straightforward, though its workings are intricate enough, the author sketches the histories of four people in Bellington, a town she places in West Virginia. They are Mitch Hampson, born in 1910, a soldier, heavy-equipment operator, scrambling business man; his wife Jean, born in the mid-'20s, deeper and more...
Immediately after the ceremony, Shultz flew off to a surprising destination: Nicaragua, whose Sandinista government Ronald Reagan has consistently assailed as a "reign of terror" dedicated to exporting Communist revolution to the region. For 2½ hours the Secretary of State conferred with Junta Coordinator Daniel Ortega Saavedra at Managua's airport. After the obligatory photos, Ortega swung his chair around so as to face Shultz. Though aides were present, Shultz and Ortega did almost all the talking...
...pessimism is not the stuff of Juan Carlos's reign, as the king likes to say himself. He has time to cement the transition. Says Marichal of the king's reign thus far, "Probably even Franco would be surprised...
Lubowitz's thesis stirred some controversy in the department, since some members "didn't respect the topic," he says. Nevertheless he went ahead researching original patterns and documents of Dior's reign as fashion king of Paris in the 50s. "I was really on my own," he says. "It was difficult because I was doing a lot of empirical work from the magazines. Dior elevated fashion to an integral part of popular culture and basically saved the French economy," he adds...