Word: governance
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PAKISTAN Tainted Win President Pervez Musharraf claimed an overwhelming mandate to govern the country for another five years after results of a referendum gave him 95% of the vote. But the independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan said that polling irregularities, including multiple voting, "exceeded our worst fears." Musharraf seized power in a military coup in October...
...preternaturally opposed to anything regulatory--and existing clean-air law, he believes, saddles energy producers with too many rules and too little incentive to be clean. So in February Bush proposed new legislation to curtail power-plant pollution. His plan, which he dubs Clear Skies, ditches regulations that govern the major power-plant pollutants--mercury, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides--in favor of a "cap and trade" system. The market-oriented idea is to set nationwide targets for emissions reductions that are mandatory, but let industry decide how to comply...
...companies like Dow got into the business after Congress passed the 1996 Food Quality Protection Act, which tightened safety standards on thousands of pesticides. The manufacturers responded by unleashing a flurry of small, short-term clinical trials aimed at persuading the Environmental Protection Agency to relax the rules that govern exposure to toxic chemicals...
...Palestinians understand the danger of angering the U.S., the inevitable arbiter of peace negotiations. "They realize their only hope of getting Israel to pull back is the U.S.," says the FBI agent. "So to target us now would be counterproductive." That sounds reassuring. But it presumes that logic will govern these decisions. In the world of suicide bombings, that may not be a safe...
...same corporate interests as the elites he is joining. He stands for the same logic behind Harvard’s heavy-handed expansion into Allston and its exploitation of the workers that sustain our community. Harvard is primarily an educational and research institution, and yet the people who govern it—with the exception of former University of Chicago President Hanna H. Gray—can hardly claim to be qualified as academics...