Word: governability
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...entire court hedged its anti-labor executory definition by adding, "Because of the special nature of a collective-bargaining agreement.... a some what stricter standard than the business judgement' standard applied to authorize rejection of an ordinary executory contract should govern the Bankruptcy Court's decision to allow rejection of a collective-bargaining agreement...
...Budget Director David Stockman were plotting ways to win passage of the massive 1981 tax cut. Darman had deep reservations about a policy that he thought, correctly, would create huge deficits. He justifies his support for those cuts by arguing, "It was strategically important that the capacity to govern be demonstrated." He also coordinated White House efforts to win congressional approval for placing the Marines in Lebanon, even though he internally opposed that decision. Indeed, Darman is at fundamental odds with the Republican Party's right wing, and with Reagan himself, in believing that effectively managed social programs...
Whether or not voters are directly effected by polls, polls may govern the amount of media attention each candidate receives. Many people believe that, if nothing else, there is a strong media bandwagon effect...
...cannot imagine anything so destructive as a bureaucracy for determining the comparable worth of dissimilar jobs, like comparing a secretary with a truck driver. Why not let the proven method of supply and demand govern the worth...
Vitali Vorotnikov, 58, a party bureau crat whom Brezhnev once banished to the Soviet embassy in Havana, advanced rapidly under Andropov. But he is too new to the Politburo to figure prominently in this race. The handful of men who govern the Soviet Union now stand at a great historical and psychological divide. Most of them can measure the history of the Communist regime by the decades in their lives. They were born and reared amid revolution, reached maturity during despotism and global war, and grew old building a fortress nation second to none. As they choose a successor...