Word: governance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...search and speculation went on, researchers in U.S. labs added their own clues: the blood of AIDS victims has an imbalance among the cells that help govern the production of antibodies. A normal immune system has twice as many helper Tcells, which stimulate the making of antibodies, as it does suppressor Tcells, which keep antibody production under control. In an AIDS victim, the ratio may be reversed. Often there are fewer cells of both types...
...spur investment in plants, land and equipment, and has unproved relations with U.S. Steel, which has announced that Gary will become the center of its steel operation. "I could be elected as many times as I want without the support of the business community, but I can't govern effectively without that support," Hatcher says...
...well as pro-Thatcher." For that matter, some of the vote will also be anti-Thatcher. The Prime Minister's bid for a second term may seem assured, but the surly, divisive campaign that precedes it will not make it all that easy for the winner to govern. -By Russ Hoyle. Reported by Bonnie Angela and Frank Melville/London
Behind the tantrums and soap-opera posturing was the question of who would govern the city for the next four years. Says Washington, 61, who was elected on April 12 with 51.8% of the vote: "It appears that some members of the city council are apparently experiencing a nervous reaction to the prospect of reform." Shortly after the election, at what was supposed to be a "unity" breakfast, Washington had confided some of his reform notions to Vrdolyak. As might have been predicted, the city's craftiest politician did not respond eagerly to the news that he would...
...govern effectively, Washington must mend fences with the city bureaucracy, which is composed mostly of machine loyalists. He will also have to make peace with the police department; many officers openly worked for Epton and the chief, under bitter attack from Washington, announced his resignation a week before the election. By declaring during during the campaign that taxes would have to be increased, Washington has allowed himself room to tackle Chicago's growing financial problems, that is if he can get the necessary support from the city council. For all his talk of conciliation, the mayor-elect quickly served...