Word: governability
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...order to leave nothing absent from its report on the less than salubrious effects of salt. Yet, despite the warnings linking consumption of salt and hypertension, a number of TIME staff members who worked on the cover story find that well-intentioned dictates of the mind do not always govern the whims of the palate...
...first Tuesday in March, Vermont citizens convene in their towns, pretty much as New Englanders have done for three centuries, to govern themselves. These town meetings are exemplars of grass-roots democracy, but they rarely deal with issues of national, much less international, significance. This year was different. On agendas throughout the state, tucked between routine budget matters and garbage-dump disputes, was a motion calling for a moratorium on the spread of nuclear weapons. In all but 31 of the 192 towns voting, the motion was approved. "The people of Vermont," said Patrick Leahy, their Democratic Senator...
SALT was the most difficult issue at the 1974 summit. It had become a whipping boy in a deeper struggle over the entire nature of U.S.-Soviet relations and even over Nixon's fitness to govern. Even so, after meetings near Yalta in the Crimea, where Brezhnev had taken our whole party for a few days, it was decided that I would not accompany Nixon on a visit to Minsk but would return to Moscow to see whether progress could be made...
...proposal Ford had floated a few days earlier of a summit of business and labor leaders to overcome inflation. Attorney General William Saxbe interrupted: "Mr. President, I don't think we ought to have a summit conference. We ought to be sure you have the ability to govern." George Bush, then chairman of the Republican National Committee, took up the theme. The Republican Party, he said, was in a shambles; the forthcoming congressional election threatened disaster. Watergate had to be brought to an end expeditiously. Everyone in the room knew the corollary: the only way Watergate could end quickly...
...Huntington insists--that is the central message of his book, the reason why political turbulence is a guaranteed American phenomenon. Though we share the same goals, we do not always agree on the success of our system in reaching them. Indeed, Huntington argues, to the degree that a government must govern, it will always fall short of the absolutes: certainly it will never be able to erase the continuing suspicions about government power. This gap between expectations and performance (or, in Huntington's brushed-chrome lingo, between ideals and institutions, abbreviated as the "IvI gap") fuels our volatile periods...