Word: governance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well enter British history as the election nobody won, a paradigm of a poor and poorly timed good news-bad news joke. The British voters provided something for everyone-but not enough for anyone to govern effectively.In the process, as they did in the last election, the voters also upset the best estimates of pollsters and pundits...
...indecisive outcome of the election seemed to reflect the country's disillusionment with its political leaders as much as its lack of confidence in either party's ability to govern. That does not bode well for firm solutions to Britain's profound problems. It means, moreover, that before long Britain will almost certainly have another election...
President Bok said yesterday that Eliot House will be permitted to keep the $20,000 alumni arts donation it received last week, but said that a "clear policy" must be developed to govern large donations made to individual Houses...
...Meir, whose party is both secular and socialist, would agree only to set up a committee to study the issue. But she promised to keep three Cabinet seats open - just in case the N.R.P. comes around to her view and gives her the majority she needs to govern effectively. Even if the Religious Party stays out, it will probably vote along with Labor on most major issues...
...more than 400 years, the Moslems in the southern Philippines, who now number about 2.5 million, have resisted attempts by the country's predominantly Christian administration to govern them. In recent years they have violently opposed Manila's policy of encouraging Christian settlers to migrate south and buy Moslem land. It was in part to end this violence that Marcos imposed martial law. At that time he demanded that all citizens turn in their guns to the government. Many Moslems balked and called for creation of an independent Moslem state. They took to the hills, where they seemingly...