Word: scepter
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...most popular man of the right and the President's toughest antagonist. So Chirac's potential to be a nuisance remains imposing. But his political influence can now only be exercised to benefit or to harm others, not himself. He keeps his throne, but the scepter of real power is already slipping from his hand...
...What's in a name? Magic, it seems, if the name is Gandhi or Nehru, and the place is India ... The House of Nehru has reigned over independent India in one almost unbroken dynastic line, passing the scepter down from one generation to the next. By now the system of one-family rule has become so firmly entrenched that the newsmagazine India Today calls India 'a democratic monarchy' ... Jawaharlal [Nehru] served for 17 years as the first Prime Minister of independent India. Jawaharlal begat Indira, who ruled for 16 of the 20 years of the post-Nehru era and, through...
Unlike many Asian tycoons, Li relies on nonfamily professionals to run his empire. That said, analysts don't expect him to choose a successor outside the bloodline. The betting is that Li will pass his scepter to eldest son Victor, 39, a Stanford-trained engineer and deputy chairman of Cheung Kong...
...Franklin's fame helped open French hearts--and purse strings--when years later he came calling at Louis XVI's court on behalf of his embattled young nation. As the French financier Turgot would say of the kite flyer from Philadelphia, "He snatched lightning from the sky and the scepter from tyrants...
...wrappings. The better preserved of the two is a woman's arm that may be in a flexed position; the hand on the arm is clasped. If attached to the young woman's body, the arm would be bent across her chest and the hand could have held a scepter--an Egyptian sign of kingly power. "This was clearly someone of authority," says Ertman. "The only other time I've seen this is in an image of Hatshepsut, a woman who ruled as king...