Word: governance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Suppressing the Facts. Superficially there was little resemblance to that ugly outbreak of anti-Semitism and politics in the French army in the 1890s. What the two cases did have in common was their threat to the whole fabric of government. Men of integrity in the Italian government tried to suppress the Montesi case, not because they were themselves enveloped in its murky mists but because a whole governing society regarded itself, and its competence to govern, involved in the revelations of privileges, corruption and injustice. The government dared not abandon investigation of the case, but was unwilling to pursue...
Unnatural Laws. The things that science deals with, said Gold, range in size from electrons (radius 10 -13 cm) to the universe itself (radius 10 27 cm). Man, the earth and the solar system lie midway between the two extremes, and the laws that govern them have become so familiar that any deviation seems wrong. But gravitation, one ruling common-sense force, is ignored by subatomic particles, which are attracted to one another by enormously strong forces effective only at very short distances. To explain events in the "microphysical" world, scientists need the "unnatural" rules of quantum theory...
...find Dr. Oppenheimer is not entitled to the continued confidence of the Government and of this commission because of the proof of fundamental defects in his 'character' . . . The record shows that Dr. Oppenheimer has consistently placed himself outside the rules which govern others. He has falsified in matters wherein he was charged with grave responsibilities in the national interest...
...Crisis. For Peurifoy, two crises were past, but another will follow soon. The colonels' agreement left Monzón heading a junta of five officers-two of his own followers plus Castillo Armas and another rebel colonel. After 15 days, the junta is to choose a President to govern until democratic elections can be held...
...Christian Democrats, with their small Zentrum (Center) Party ally, were now two seats short of a majority in the state legislature and would have to seek allies to the right or left to govern...