Word: reigns
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Again and again during the three years of his reign, Pope John Paul II has reaffirmed the Roman Catholic Church's message that man has an intrinsic worth and dignity, and any system that degrades that worth or undermines that dignity is wrong. In his many speeches and in his first two encyclicals, he has expressed his concern for the welfare of the individual, criticized the dehumanizing aspects of modern life and committed the church to the cause of social justice...
Still there? It's almost November now, and we are in Los Angeles (or Philadelphia or San Francisco or, heaven forbid, Montreal) for the 1981 World Series. The winner of the four-of-seven series will reign as baseball's finest team...
...preliminary Klitgaard report, they want to hold off final judgement until the final report is released. But even if the next version is wanted down, it may not overshadow any negative results of the preliminary draft. On the other hand, the lure of the Harvard name may reign supreme--provided the admissions office continues to disassociate itself from Klitgaard's opinions. "Students that plan to apply to Harvard," the Stuyvesant High School counselor insists, "will apply anyway...
...program was the result of the most acrimonious Cabinet debate of Thatcher's two-year reign as Prime Minister. Says one minister: "Margaret came under very heavy fire, with raised voices around the table." The attack was led by Tory moderates who argued for a much more sweeping proposal that would guarantee schooling, training or work for every 16-year-old. Cost: $2.3 billion a year. In the end, Deputy Prime Minister and Home Secretary William Whitelaw and Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington, the Cabinet heavyweights, backed the reduced plan, and Thatcher and Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Geoffrey Howe...
...policies, first clashed openly with the Duarte government over a proposed relaxation of a wage-price freeze. Government officials quashed the plan. Since then, businessmen, frustrated by the lack of international confidence in the Salvadoran economy, have pressed Duarte to moderate his reforms by giving the private sector freer reign. The campaign has had some success. Besides loosening tax and credit requirements, the junta has indefinitely postponed its planned second stage of the land-reform program, which would have converted some 1,500 small farms to peasant cooperatives...