During Berlusconi s tenure in office, his enormous personal assets have tripled.

During his four years in power, Putin has advanced four major policies.

Thompson, E. A.. The Visigoths in the Time of Ulfila .

Mexico s crisis is the ideal time to consider new variants of presidentialism.

The buildings of the royal residences were built mainly during the reign of Frederick the Great.

Some of these postcards featured Vietnam during the French colonial rule in the early 1900s.

But can our society really return to Mao's era?

His authoritarianism, fashioned over a reign of almost three decades, was the no frills kind, and heavy on repression.

This debt was incurred during the 30 year reign of the deposed president, Hosni Mubarak.

Here he describes prison life in Libya during the rule of the old regime

During the reign of Boniface IX two jubilees were celebrated at Rome.

In the roaring 1990's, it was almost impossible to find qualified restaurant staff to fill vacant jobs. During the stagnant economic years of the Bush administration, such workers were plentiful.

During Saddam s reign, no effort was made to raise living standards for the poor.

What has changed under New Labour's rule is the British constitution.

The role of the Fourth Estate was particularly important during the administration of President George W Bush.

A protester holds a poster against the alleged extrajudicial killings that occurred during the term of Philippine President Aquino.

In the absence of the two kings, the situation became more and more tense in the capital.

Samrat Samprati, the grandson of the emperor Asoka, built many temples here during his empire.

A law promoting small enterprises (so long as they remain small!) only increases the bias against large scale operations embedded in Argentina's high tax rates and strict labor market regulations.

Despite 14 joblessness, unemployment taxes were increased last December after three years of cuts by Menem.

Boards and organizations

This is not the first health drive the Kremlin has initiated during Putin s presidency.

Notwithstanding the ECB's significant achievements during the Duisenberg years, important problems remain for the new president, Jean Claude Trichet of France.

During Cardoso's tenure, he privatized telecoms, the national mining company and part of the electric sector.

These reforms had broad political support and were, in fact, initiated during a social democratic government.

What many saw, instead, was the start of a wave of political engagement unprecedented under the rule of Vladimir Putin.

During the Kirata era, a settlement called Yambu existed in the northern half of old Kathmandu.

WASHINGTON, DC Iran s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has never been happy about the status of the Iranian presidency neither during his own tenure, from 1981 1989, nor during the terms of his three successors.

Let Developing Nations Rule

A Decade of Hugo Chávez

Democracy is one form of government.

The media, silent during Fujimori's reign, contribute to the feverish political climate.

The stagnation that had begun during Leonid Brezhnev s rule deepened after his death in 1982.

The reforms introduced by Augustus during his long reign stabilized the empire after the turmoil of the previous century's civil wars.

United Russia, on the other hand, based its campaign on the progress made during President Putin's tenure notable economic growth and slight improvement in people's living standards.

This is why they should commit their cruelest deeds in the first year and soften up as the next election approaches.

Poverty drives some to take money in exchange for acts of violence, abetted by the lure of a false heroism that they were not able to act upon during Saddam s long reign.

But even in strong democracies, the final years of a long rule are typically the worst.

Kohl's last years, for example, were marked by electoral corruption.

All Governors, whatever their voting rights, will continue to attend meetings of the Governing Council and to participate fully in its discussions.

Two tons of heroin per month passed from Asia to Europe through Kosovo during the rule of Slobodan Milosevic.

Under Margaret Thatcher, Britain's Conservatives secured a seemingly unbreakable grip on power, dominating political and economic debate.

Whereas Henry III had only collected four of these in his reign, Edward I collected nine.

In fact, most scholars believe that Abu Nuwas wrote most of his poems during the reign of al Amin (809 813).

During the reign of Vakhtang Gorgasali (5th century) Rustavi took an important part in the political life of Georgia.