Word: governance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...church in America now is often seen not as imposingly monolithic but as beleaguered and fragmented. Its members have become selective and of them a la carte Catholics who ignore their prelates' guidance on birth control, divorce and other issues. The hierarchy has lost its authority to govern Catholics so entirely in their private lives. Far from being an advancing menace, the church each year falls further behind in its recruiting of men and women to take up the religious life...
...both federal and state agencies are considering rewriting the regulations which govern waste disposal, Harvard has called a group of University officials together to discuss the problem as well as proposed Environmental Protection Agencies rules which threaten to inflate disposal costs drastically...
...interested students to answer questions about Harvard. "It's not exactly recruiting--if you recruited 50 applicants and only five were accepted, that wouldn't spread much goodwill," he says. The admissions office has no quotas for regions or cities, but Trueheart says there are general "traditions" that usually govern the number of applicants accepted from a city--recently it's been about seven a year from Rochester...
...challenger has talked a lot about the vague concept of "neighborhoods," but nobody can spell out what he means--and more importantly--what he would do. To make matters worse, some say Timilty does not write his own political scripts. And many believe he simply lacks the competence to govern the city...
While Kennedy remains undecided, Carter will find it increasingly difficult to govern effectively. He will be punching at air, appearing weak, foolish and undignified. If only to take the nation out of this unreal debate about whether or not he will run, Kennedy should declare his intentions...