Word: reigns
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Clinton then went on to criticize Obama for not shutting down his political action committee, as other presidential hopefuls had done, and rattled off with wonkish glee a list of things accomplished during his eight-year reign - 22.9 million new jobs, eight million people moved from poverty to the middle class, and so on - and, pointedly, contrasted the numbers with those of the current Administration. "He's run a very impressive campaign," he said of Obama. But the Illinois Senator is arguing, Clinton said, that "if you were part of making good things happen in the '90s, and stopping...
...play our best hockey tomorrow night.PENALTY KILL CLAWEDThe first four power plays for Quinnipiac ended in disaster for the Crimson’s penalty kill unit. In a game in which Quinnipiac scored only one of its seven goals at even strength, the Bobcats power play enjoyed almost free reign on the ice, as its special teams struck four of the six times that Harvard skaters were confined to the penalty box.Both at the end of the first and the beginning of the second periods, the calls against the Crimson could not have been more perfectly timed for the Bobcats...
...world reads headlines such as MAFIA INC. ITALY'S LARGEST COMPANY, but none of the candidates for Prime Minister deem this worthy of mention. The Sicilian Mafia, 'Ndrangheta in Calabria and Camorra in my home region of Campania currently reign over one-third of Italy's territory, infiltrating entire sectors of the aboveboard economy - transportation, hospitals, construction, fashion, supermarkets, agriculture - like a cancer to which no part of the nation is immune...
Babylon reached its greatest heights in the early 6th century B.C. under the reign of Nebuchadnezzar II, who endowed his capital with unequaled architectural splendor. Cuneiform sources offer little evidence of what the city looked like, but classical accounts - in particular, by the 5th century Greek historian Herodotus - describe a city that extended for 14 miles (23 km) in each direction, divided in the middle by the mighty Euphrates, and fortified by five sun-dried mud-brick walls, each up to 23 ft. (7 m) thick. The walls guarded a spectacular inner city, whose grand streets ran parallel...
...year-old registered independent as his top envoy at Catholic Church headquarters - following a pair of prominent Republican fund raisers in the post - is a clear nod to the cerebral leanings of the man in charge of the Holy See. Pope Benedict XVI's nearly three-year reign has been marked by his intellectual explorations and probing writings about how a timeless faith intersects with contemporary life...