Word: governance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Imagine a world of peace, unity and oneness. A world where racial and religious strife has ceased to exist, where people worship, govern, and even speak as one. To more than three million people around the globe today this is not some unattainable utopia, but a vision destined to become reality...
...very inventions that came into being to make democracy more democratic, in practice have delimited the nation's most fundamental liberties. Instruments like television and high-speed printing presses have turned America into a village of common thought, which theoretically ought to enhance a people's power to govern their own destinies. But the ability of other people, specialized people, to control those thoughts has grown with the inventions. Political campaigns are managed not by the candidates but by media experts, who indeed seem expert in determining how the majority thinks and votes. A huge business these days is called...
...country's English-language newspapers were stunned by the severity of the new regulations. Declared the financial newspaper Business Day: "Government today unceremoniously dumps this country into the totalitarian camp." An editorial in the Pretoria News began with the comment, "Well, that's it," and concluded, "This is a desperate action by desperate people who demonstrate that they are unfit to govern." Said Cape Times Editor Tony Heard bluntly: "We are clearly on the road toward being a police state." Overseas, the reaction was almost uniformly critical. The U.S. denounced the South African action, as did most of its allies...
That is not enough in these days. He must prove his innocence beyond any doubt or lose his power to govern, perhaps lose his job. If Reagan was aware in almost any way, no matter how oblique or remote, that funds from our dealings with Iran would go to the contras, yet another national tragedy may be unavoidable...
...effect on the subsequent probability that a teenager will begin to have intercourse, neither postponing it nor hastening it," said Douglas Kirby, the head researcher. "Typically, students who take sex-education courses report more tolerant attitudes toward the sexual behavior of others but little change in the values that govern their own personal behavior...