Word: reigns
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...bronzed Lyndon Johnson by the Presidential side. To be sure, Bush has never been a small government conservative; he didn't come to office, for instance, vowing to abolish the Department of Education; he expanded it. But no one could have foreseen the massive expansion of government under his reign-the creation of a new prescription drug entitlement, the invasion of two countries on the Asian continent, the greatest realignment of the federal government in history. And now the wholesale rebuilding of an American city and the care of thousands of American evacuees...
...Chinese believe that natural disasters signal the fall of empires, a shift in the "Mandate of Heaven." The 1976 Tangshan earthquake that killed more than 200,000 people, for example, was said to portend the end of Mao's reign. This may be akin to seeing a fetus in the shape of a hurricane, but the Chinese do have a point: we have had two catastrophes in the past four years-9/11 and Katrina-and taken together, they send a signal that America's remarkable late-20th century run may not be perpetual. Modifications in the way we live...
Number of years since the Miss America Pageant's inception in Atlantic City, a reign that ended last week when the city agreed to let the pageant leave and search for a new home...
...Wahhabi form of Islam so long as it continued to recognize the legitimacy of the House of Saud as Saudi Arabia's political leadership. After the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, he worked with the U.S. government to encourage a jihad against the Red Army. During Fahd's reign, the country imposed a stricter dress code for women, continued to ban women from driving and spent billions exporting Wahhabi teachings and building mosques throughout the Islamic world. The policy backfired not only with the September 11 attacks in the U.S. but two years later inside the Kingdom itself, when...
Among overpriced but stylish sneaks, Nikes still reign, but skater shoes and retro Converses are again on the rise...