Word: governability
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...friends of France abroad and infuriating her people at home. The large number of French parties, fostered by a system of proportional representation, means that one party can hardly ever control more than 35% of the National Assembly. This in turn means that the party in power must govern in coalition with other parties-which keep a jealous watch and often kick over the traces when they get restive...
...Southern leaders were on their feet. Texas' ex-Governor Dan Moody offered the South's minority report defining the sovereignty of the states. Two other Southerners, Mississippi's Walter Sillers and Cecil Sims of Tennessee, followed with similar amendments. Cried Sillers: "Give us the right to govern our own fundamental affairs!" Then ex-Congressman Andrew J. Biemiller, of Wisconsin, a onetime Socialist who helped manage Norman Thomas' campaign in 1932, a colleague of Humphrey on the platform committee, presented the Northern minority report on civil rights...
...might be able to form a government stayed in the background. Ahmed Gavam had stepped down from the premiership six months ago under attack from the Russians (for the Majlis' failure to give them oil rights) and from fellow Persians (on charges of graft). He decided to take a rest, flew to Paris. Without the 70 to 80 votes which he controlled in the Majlis, neither Hajir nor anyone else could govern...
...Prince." He regards the world primarily as "a market which the combined power of high-pressure salesmanship and cheap mass production will open to him . . . Massively energetic in action," skeptical of theories, he considers most politics as "a wanton interference with the natural laws by which businessmen govern society...
...Forest also knew the Southern admiration for virility: "If you will fight, if you are strong and skillful enough to kill your antagonist, if you can govern or influence the common herd ... if you stand by your opinions unflinchingly, if you do your level best on whiskey, if you are a devil of a fellow with women, if, in short, you show vigorous masculine attributes, he will grant you his respect...