Word: govern
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Instead, SAC voted to keep the current system in place but to allay concerns of accessibility by making "programmatic changes," specifically publishing the by-laws that govern the selection process...
Thanks to Bill Clinton's thinking with his--how can I say this politely--body instead of his head, America is becoming the laughing stock of Europe. People there see a government too divided to govern and too obsessed with its image to tell the truth. They see a people too fascinated by the prurient sexual details to focus on the world's economic crisis or the new era of European unification marked by the debut of the euro. In the face of such disarray, many Europeans are beginning to turn away from the country they once respected...
Some rules that will govern impeachment proceedings...
...Clinton whose job was on the line. The next it was Gingrich. But the surprising election of 1998 did more than take a load off one man's shoulders and put it on another's till he dropped. It brought home that all year the governing majority in Congress has done just about anything but govern. From the moment in January that Monica Lewinsky became as famous as Michael Jordan, official Washington and its media auxiliary have been transfixed by the President's sex drive. And for a while, who wasn't? But in time most people moved back...
...moving too far to the left had Gingrich not come along and yanked the whole enterprise too far to the right. Gingrich had always been Clinton's best foil, the uglier alternative to whom Clinton kept pointing every time Americans got fed up with the President's inability to govern, stay focused and get things done. As scattered as Clinton can be, Gingrich was always worse, talking about dinosaurs and space colonies and women in trenches...