Word: reigns
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...Mesic government is now under fire from various quarters for allowing organized crime - which flourished under the reign of autocratic President Franjo Tudjman, who led Croatia's independence struggle - to grow even more rampantly after the country's transition to democracy. "The authorities are obviously incompetent to stand up to organized crime," said opposition MP Vladimir Sisljagic at a press conference on Monday. "This situation is a result of 18 years of turning a blind eye to war profiteering and gangsterism...
...highlight the illogical nature of the Bush regime’s foreign policy by using Egypt as an example of a repressive government that the U.S. has done little to reform, but he fails to tie it in with the rest of the book. Hosni Mubarak’s reign of almost thirty years falls under Traub’s category of a “liberal autocracy,” but while the U.S. has maintained a solid relationship with Egypt, it has not done much to foster democracy there. While this example does seem to speak...
BEVERLY HILLS CHIHUAHUA continues its reign over the October box office. It's not as if these Wall Street guys have anything else...
...Monday night's official White House dinner, replete with Maine lobster and Reggiano ravioli, Berlusconi was waxing nostalgic as the President's reign nears its end, declaring that he and Bush will "remain friends forever." Whether the pair continues to meet up in Crawford to review their triumphs is up to them. But their place in history is one judgment beyond their...
...Marks & Sparks Goes East. The British retailer Marks & Spencer has a homegrown following devoted to its gourmet food halls and no-nonsense children's clothes and underwear; now the store is expanding its reign overseas to Shanghai, where it has opened the first of 50 stores planned in China. The 40,000-sq.-ft. store sells everything from mens' and womens' clothing to over 1,000 lines of food including fish pies and molten chocolate cake. So if you're ever jonesing for Yorkshire pudding in Shanghai, head to West Nanjing Road...