Word: reigns
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...remain the costliest in the country. Yale will jump 10.1% to $12,980, Princeton 12.6% to $12,910, and Columbia College anticipates a 12% boost to $12,750. Harvard will increase its tab by merely 8.7%, its lowest rise in four years. Even at $13,150, Harvard will not reign as the most expensive university in the U.S. Two that are costlier: Bennington College ($13,510) and M.I.T...
...Ancient Evenings does achieve some of the cleaning of the slate it sets out to do and goes a ways towards creating a new world, however bizarre that world is. As evinced in the story of Menenhetet, a peasant who rises to the post of First Charioteer in the reign of Ramses II and succeeds in getting reincarnated three or four times--ancient Egypt is a land of many weird rites and customs, filled with magic, telepathy and violence. Menenhetet relates his odyssey from a Nile village to the Pharaoh's chariot in the glorious battle against the Hittites...
...Hanoi, for its part, contends that its troops were sent into Kampuchea partly to end Pol Pot's killing spree and partly to blunt Chinese designs on Viet Nam. Despite Hanoi's intervention in Kampuchea, life in that beleaguered land is clearly better today than during the reign...
During his 16-year reign at the GSD, Sert created the first American degree in Urban Design a part of his broader interest in city planning...
Halti represents a similar case; Reagan last year increased the millions spent upholding the bloody reign of Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Davaller, Halti's so-called President-for-life. "Baby doc" rules the poorest nation in the Western hemisphere by military force, torture, and illegal improvement. Thousands of refugees fled to America to escape the crushing poverty and government terror, the President ordered them jailed, and instructed the Coast Guard to turn back boatloads of freedom-seekers...