Word: reigns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...says Peissel, who spent six months studying them, the Minaro are a matriarchal society. Most married women have more than one husband. The women dominate the men and slap them around in public. The principal deities are female, goddesses of fortune and fertility, who preside over lesser goddesses that reign over time, the hunt and the village...
...impending change was almost universally bemoaned in the New Journalistic community, which had been well-represented in Harper's during the two year reign of former editor Michael Kinsley. During Kinsley's tenure the magazine had been witty, controversial, and occasionally profound as it attempted to revive the essay from and apply it to intriguing, off-beat subjects such as the ethos of Thanksgiving or the politics of funeral homes. Kinsley delighted in using his "The Easy Chair" column to lambaste sacred cows, including Jonathan Schell just after Schell had written The Fate of the Earth and was considered...
THROUGHOUT the 35-year reign of the Shah, border conflicts between Iran and Iraq never escalated beyond short exchanges of gunfire. But in the fall of 1980, not a year after Khomeini returned to Iran. Iraqi president Saddam-Hossein launched a full-scale surprise attack into Iran. Today, almost half a million people have died and the two nations continue to wage...
...model citizens. Their religion places great stress on industriousness, peacefulness and obedience to the law. In Iran, however, Baha'is are not only unwanted but actively persecuted. Since the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini came to power in 1979, Iran's 300,000 Baha'is have suffered a reign of terror in the land where their faith was born. In the latest of many protests, the State Department's annual human rights report stated last week that believers "suffer from imprisonment, torture and execution" at the hands of the government...
...shown to contain traces of the chemical. Last week the Environmental Protection Agency responded to the furor by outlawing the use of EDB as a pesticide for grain and by recommending national standards for grain products already tainted by the chemical. EPA Administrator William Ruckelshaus, who during a previous reign at EPA banned DDT in 1972, announced ceilings of 30 parts per billion of EDB for ready-to-eat food, like cold cereal or bread; 150 p.p.b. for flours and baking mixes; and 900 p.p.b. for raw grain in storage...