Word: sovereign
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...superior as works of art; but even third-drawer Shakespeare is pretty wonderful stuff. According to the standard view, Richard was a legitimate but incompetent monarch; Henry IV was capable but doomed by having usurped the crown; and Henry V was Shakespeare's conception of the perfect sovereign, a hero-king with legitimate title...
...Bermuda-based Mineral and Resources Corp. (assets: $2.4 billion), which is already a leading foreign investor in the U.S. through its 27% ownership of the giant Engelhard Minerals & Chemicals Corp. in New York. Last month Mineral and Resources Corp. expanded further in the U.S. with the takeover of Sovereign Coal Corp. in Bluefield, W. Va., Harman Mining in Harman, Va., and Terra Chemicals International, Sioux City, Iowa. If that sort of investment continues, Americans may come to know Harry Oppenheimer as well as South Africans...
...allies, Lefever wrote, "there is little the U.S. Government can or should do to advance human rights." Two years ago, Lefever recommended to a congressional committee that it remove from U.S. law "all clauses that establish a human rights standard or condition that must be met by another sovereign government." He said last week of that pronouncement: "I goofed...
More cooperation between countries will ensue from the elimination of 150 nationalistic sovereign states. His plans include an electric energy network grid extending across the world, making energy consumption more efficient, recycling resources, and using lighter alloys. He also seeks to eliminate worthless occupations--such as insurance agencies--because these services should be provided outside the market...
Another voter concern focuses on the power he has accumulated during his term. Few disagree that he has concentrated presidential authority to a greater degree than either De Gaulle or Georges Pompidou, his two Fifth Republic predecessors. "France is governed by an elected sovereign, a republican monarch, almost an enlightened despot " writes French Journalist Alain Duhamel [Giscard] is at the same time the Queen of England and Her Majesty's Prime Minister...