Word: governability
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Like all others in the future, the January issue will have a central theme -in this case, politics-within an editorial mix of about fifty-fifty fashion and non-fashion. There will be contributions from Spiro Agnew, George Wallace, Edmund Muskie, George Mc-Govern and Ted Kennedy, among others. Fashions will be displayed against political backdrops. In February, the background will be Manhattan and the issue theme "In Defense of New York," highlighting an interview with John Lindsay on what he doesn't like about the New York Times...
...table and proceeded to take the blood pressure of all shoppers who desired a free test. At the same time, squads of teen-agers fanned out to the beaches and rundown sections of the city and began cleaning up garbage and debris. "This is how the Frente Amplio will govern," proclaimed pamphlets distributed by the young people...
...that this oppressed group begins complaining about the use of the "white" pronoun "to refer to all people."' Our linguists presumably then say. "Now, now, 'there is really no cause for anxiety or pronoun envy...' You just don't understand that 'markedness is one of the fundamental principles which govern the organization of the internal economies of all human languages."' Such a reply is completely irrelevant. It isn't a question of linguistics but of how the people involved feel about how they are referred to. Virginia Vallan Department of Psychology, MIT Jerrold Katz Department of Philosophy...
AFTER a last-minute flood of economic directives ironically reminiscent of the New Deal, the nation finally enters Phase II of President Nixon's economic program this week. The new rules, which could govern American wages and prices at least until next Election Day, poured out of the President's Pay Board and Price Commission almost until the hour of Phase II's arrival at 12:01 a.m. on Sunday. Even so, having endured a sudden and all but total three-month freeze, the economy has moved into a new climate of controlled thaw...
...polite, courteous," said U.S. Ambassador George Bush. "We will be discreet, fair and available." Both sides, in fact, tacitly look upon the U.N. delegation as China's unofficial embassy to the U.S. As one qualifiedly friendly gesture, the U.S. applied to the Chinese the same travel regulations that govern the movements of the Soviets. Delegates from other Communist countries that have no diplomatic relations with Washington, such as Cuba, Albania and Mongolia, must apply for special permission to travel more than 25 miles from Manhattan's Columbus Circle; the Soviets, and now the Chinese, merely have to notify...