Word: reigns
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...said FAS continues to operate under a tight fiscal belt, having already taken on such major projects as the curricular review, expansion of the Faculty and construction in the North Yard. And the relatively small surplus of $2.3 million posted by FAS last fiscal year has led administrators to reign in certain areas of the budget...
...private militia. This oppression of Dominique, his followers and poor Haitians in general is ultimately the theme that ties the film’s large historical bookends. Demme dredges up some oft-unseen footage of Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier’s reign, which was marked by bizarre voodoo rituals at the presidential palace and the terror of the ubiquitous Tons Tons Macoutes, a troupe of Boy Scouts-gone-wrong, who bore automatic weapons in support of the ruling power. The transformation of Papa Doc’s regime into Jean-Claude...
...time I returned to the East coast in 2002 the country had grown weary of overhyped Websites, corporate greed and generally arrogant business people. The recession decimated the Silicon Valley economy as untold billions evaporated in the California sun. Many reckoned that it was the end of California's reign as a place that could fuel innovation or generate significant growth for the U.S. economy. World events took center stage, the military geared up for war and here at home we hunkered down, fretting over terrorism and looking toward the government to protect us and re-ignite economic growth. Corporate...
...catastrophe" by taking aim at history, whether the 1683 Siege of Vienna in The Europeans or the 1571 Battle of Lepanto in Scenes From an Execution. With Victory, for which Davis auditioned when it premiered at London's Royal Court in 1984, the battlefield is the post?Civil War reign of Charles...
...April, Murdoch announced that he was moving News Corp.'s official base of operations from Australia to New York City--thus completing his Americanization, which began 19 years ago when he became a U.S. citizen. With Murdoch now 73, his reign might be seen to be nearing its end; his two sons Lachlan and James stand poised to take his place at the company's helm. But the old man still seems frisky and in no hurry to step aside. And until he does, he'll continue to play the role he clearly relishes: powerful, vilified and, most...