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...Gorbachev's very rise to power is an example of one of the document's most notable deficiencies. Because the charter says nothing about the structure of the Communist Party, it does not limit Gorbachev's authority or make provision for an orderly transition. Rather, control of the apparatus of government is in the hands of powerful party cliques, which vie for power behind closed doors -- and beyond the reach of any constitutional restrictions...
These internal rumblings for change lay behind a series of committees that looked at government in the early 1970's. The Dunlop Committee revamped Harvard's administrative system, adding an extensive internal structure of five vice presidents. This new corporate apparatus freed up the governing boards to handle long-range concerns...
Presiding over "this bizarre institution," as Bok once defined his job, has not been easy. Bok arrived on the scene shortly after the 1969 University Hall takeover amidst increasing pressures from a restless faculty, sometimes violent students, and an antiquated administrative apparatus...
...province of Ulster. The Stormont government, prorogued in 1972, was the embodiment of a majority dictatorship, and as such officially tolerated and promoted various forms of discrimination, social and institutional, against the minority population. Gerrymandering, housing and job discrimination, police brutality and an incredibly repressive state-security apparatus were all consistent manifestations of the "democracy" whose passing Paisley laments. Perhaps he should follow the advice he offers Margaret Thatcher and look to affairs in his own backyard...
Johnson constantly bragged about his sexual appetite and apparatus, though he was such a storyteller that nobody was sure what to believe. The vision of that gargantuan figure rampaging through the sheets may have squelched more curiosity than it aroused. While President, Johnson was witnessed hectoring an attractive blond journalist, at dinner on his ranch, into staying the night. His language, even in front of his family members, was full of double meaning. The blond fled...