Word: ruler
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...mile border. More important, the cross-border incidents were part of a Chinese effort to intimidate Viet Nam at a time when the Hanoi government was stepping up its offensive against the rebels who oppose Viet Nam's occupation of neighboring Kampuchea. Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the former Kampuchean ruler who now heads the anti-Vietnamese resistance movement, acknowledged as much when he declared at a Peking news conference, "The more China intervenes against Viet Nam, the more we are satisfied...
...than to the rest of India. In tribute to their proud and independent past, the students have taken to calling their movement "the 18th war of independence," a reference to the 17 wars fought by Assam's legendary King Lachit Borphukan, who in the 1600s was the only ruler in the region to repulse Mogul invaders...
Between them, the seven hold close to a billion dollars in accounts with members of the Harvard Square community. In both volume of trasactions and customer market share. Bay Bank stands as the undisputed ruler of the Harvard Square territory. Donald H. Tavel, vice president of the Harvard branch, says the bank controls about 50 percent of all deposits in commercial banks in the Square (although three, including the large Cambridge Savings, are savings and not commercial...
...current military ruler, Flight Lieut. Jerry Rawlings, 35, first came to power in 1979, when he overthrew a military regime, vowing to end corruption and bring a return to parliamentary government. He made good on his second promise, calling free elections three weeks after the coup, but after just two years of civilian rule Rawlngs again moved in with his army strongmen. A leftist revolutionary descended from a Scottish engineer father and a Ghanaian mother, Rawlings promised on regaining power that Cuba would be the model for Ghana's development...
...square just off Sofia's Ruski Boulevard facing the National Assembly stands a statue of Tsar Alexander II, ruler of Russia from 1855 to 1881. A prerevolutionary Tsar being honored in a Communist country? History provides the explanation: Alexander II freed the Bulgarians from five centuries of Turkish rule in 1878, at a cost of 200,000 Russian lives. Unlike most of Eastern Europe, Bulgaria regards the U.S.S.R. as its liberator, not its conqueror. The two countries share the Cyrillic alphabet and speak similar languages. Though it is difficult to measure the affection felt by the Bulgarian people toward...