Word: governance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effect of the last two weeks of demonstrations has been significant. Aides in the office of Senator George McGovern (D-S.D.) now give the Mc-Govern-Hatfield amendment a better than even chance of passing the Senate and say that there is even a chance a modified form of the bill may pass the House. If this legislation is to be passed, the pressure must continue...
Today, many of the old critics of the Chicago machine are members of the Non-Partisan Committee to Re-Elect Mayor Daley. They argue that somehow, Mayor Daley manages to govern a big city, which is a lot more than flashy reformers like John Lindsay seem to be doing. They also cite the many achievements of the Daley administration and all the buildings he's erected. When he won re-election earlier this month, editorial writers all over the country sighed and spent a lot of ink marveling at his ability to rally popular support...
...even of an animal. Molecular Biologist Leon Kass of the National Academy of Sciences projects a world in which man pursues only artificially induced sensation, a world in which the arts have died, books are no longer read, and human beings do not bother even to think or to govern themselves...
This year's annual report from the Admissions Committee contains a revealing profile of the philosophies and practices which govern Harvard's admissions policies...
...long after he was inaugurated as President of Guatemala last July, Right Wing Army Colonel Carlos Aarña Osorio complained wearily to his people: "But you are so hard to govern." Since November, when Araña declared a state of siege, armed thugs of every political variety have been doing their best to remedy that problem by eliminating as many Guatemalans as possible. According to the Latin American Federation of Christian Trade Unions (CLASC), a Catholic labor movement based in Venezuela, at least 700 and possibly 1,000 have been murdered; some 4,000 have been arrested...