Word: reigns
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...took over and un-cooled the button. They became big and plastic, and their messages lost out to corporate hype and photo badges of 8-year-old softball players. Until now. Yes, the classic aluminum beauties are back. Kitschy slogans and retro cartoons decorate the small, round pins that reign again on the streets of fashion-conscious England and Holland. But no country has embraced the retro buttons?and their message of '80s-style youthful exuberance?as completely as Japan. Tokyoites have flocked to purchase kanbacchi, sporting their own distinctive anthems on their identical denim jacket lapels. Wait till they...
...center amid an unraveling in the provinces would certainly raise the temptation among the generals to reassert a more direct grip on power. And right now it's hard to imagine any of the alternatives to Wahid escaping the chronic instability and infighting that has dogged his reign...
...China, torture is institutionalized and an everyday part of law enforcement. The government-initiated “strike-hard” anti-crime campaigns have given tax collectors, judges, court clerks, party leaders and other officials a free reign on using torture to extract confessions and information from “criminals” like Zhou Jiangxiong. These practices are particularly prevalent in restive Tibet and the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, where ethnic minorities and their families undergo various forms of cruel and unusual punishment if they are even suspected of being involved in separatist activities...
People may argue that he could only be enjoyed for so long, that the reign of His Airness would eventually come to an end and his departure would be inevitable...
...Some would say because Djukanovic embraced independence as the only way to resist Milosevic, and that making a U-turn on that position now would simply be too risky. But a second explanation would be that during Milosevic's reign, it was too dangerous to move for legal independence because Milosevic would use that as an opportunity to start a civil war there, too. So Djukanovic is simply making the move now because it's finally safe...