Word: govern
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Four of a breed of so-called "new mayors" in the United States will come to Cambridge next month for a discussion on "Where to Find the Power to Govern...
...question raised by the Communist challenge is "whether we can govern ourselves," he stated. Americans can't even demonstrate that democracy works here, the people in the rest of the world won't pay any attention to them...
...Council shall institute By-Laws, by a two-thirds vote of the total membership, to govern its business in accordance with this Constitution...
...dramatic abdication of Brazil's President Janio Quadros, and the country is still in a quandary, its politics confused and its economy in worsening shape. The new parliamentary system, installed to limit the powers of Quadros' demagogic successor, Vice President Joao ("Jango") Goulart, has limited the government's ability to govern. Laws go unpassed because there are rarely enough members of Parliament on hand to form a quorum. Both Goulart and his Prime Minister, who is supposed to hold administrative power, issue decrees as the mood suits them...
...three Cs" (crime, concupiscence and corruption), the Weekly scored a conspicuous financial success in a newspaper barony frequently awash in red ink. Right up to the Chief's death in 1951, the Weekly, with nearly 10 million circulation, made money. But last week, the businessmen who now govern the remnants of Hearst's empire were jettisoning American Weekly clients right and left in a desperate effort to keep the supplement afloat...