Word: governability
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...Constitution provided for a census every ten years to apportion members of the House of Representatives among the states according to population. Since the founding fathers got the idea, the ten-year nose count has come to govern a whole range of basic decisions-a state's claim on the Federal Government for matching funds, a city's claim on the state for tax revenue, a government's projection of the size of its future public services, and even U.S. business guesses about the size and location of markets. Last week the national dials spun like taxi...
Verwoerd had no such intention. "Should multiracial government succeed in South Africa . . . inevitably it will mean Bantu domination over all," he cried to the throng gathered to celebrate the nation's soth anniversary. "The whites must continue to govern." And in case anyone had any doubts that apartheid was still to remain the holy doctrine, he called for full speed ahead on the vast project to herd millions of South African blacks into segregated tribal states in the virgin bush...
Throughout the four years of his nation's independence, earnest King Mohammed V has tried to find politicians who will govern Morocco to suit him. The first government he installed collapsed because the main political party, Istiqlal (Independence ), thought the Premier was too pro-French. Since December 1958, Premier Abdallah Ibrahim, 41, has governed at the head of an uneasy coalition whose backbone was the leftist Union Nationale des Forces Popnlaires. He devalued the Moroccan franc, obtained U.S. agreement to the evacuation of air and naval bases by 1963, talked of sweeping economic reforms and nibbled away...
...language of life.'' If applied to many mutant viruses, they may break entire genetic codes, telling which groups of bases are responsible for what characteristics. The next step, perhaps years away, will be to do the same with the more complicated molecules of DNA that govern the heredity of higher animals. At some point during this effort...
...threatening telephone calls in his Bando Hotel room in Seoul. Provided with an armed guard by Rhee, Lucas hastily packed his gear, flew off to safety in Tokyo. There, last week, he was still shaken by his experience. "Whoever leads the Republic of Korea in the months ahead will govern at the pleasure of the mob," wrote Lucas. "That this could happen in Korea - which I've come to regard as my second home - is unbelievable." But it was really no more unbelievable than Lucas' reporting of the Korean upheaval...