Word: governability
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...maiming and bloodletting on the current political scene [NATION, Sept. 17] can only weaken the vital processes by which we govern ourselves. How can the candidates ever recover from the personal and public injury they heap upon each other? If we are to survive as a great republic, we must have the best, not the beastliest, from everyone...
...should cover the costs of publicity or procuring a larger auditorium? Should members at least be entitled to preferred seating? Such questions may not be impossible to answer, but they indicate the type of regulatory morass that the University would enter if it undertook to fix detailed rules to govern exactly how each student group conduct its meetings...
...mayors are outsiders who are imposed on us," says Lorenzo Meyer, a professor of contemporary history at the Colegio de México. "Those who govern us do not feel accountable...
...order to encourage Nazi comparisons. Meanwhile, Hanoi's arch enemy, China, continued to finance the Khmer Rouge in secret. The same urbane and often brilliant Khmer Rouge leaders whom the West had accused of genocide one year earlier found themselves basking in the support of many Western govern ments, who reasoned, dubiously, that their enemy's enemy must be their friend...
...country that was founded as a Jewish homeland best govern itself, by parliamentary law or through a minority's interpretation of holy writ...