Word: governed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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However, Plank discredits all these possibilities. The only explanation Quadros himself offered was "there are obscure forces in Brazil with which I cannot cope and against which I cannot govern...
...view of some of its despairing critics, New York City is just too large and complex for any one man to govern properly-and Mayor Robert Ferdinand Wagner has certainly done much to confirm that belief during his eight fumbling, scandal-specked years in office. But Wagner is a Democrat, and New York is an overwhelmingly Democratic city. And last week, after one of the dreariest campaigns in its history, New York gave Bob Wagner 1,239,533 votes for a plurality of 402,980 over his Republican opponent, Attorney General Louis Lefkowitz. Running as an independent, City Controller Lawrence...
...suburbs was in full surge, tax revenues were plunging, building within the city was at a standstill, and the downtown area alone was short 29,000 parking spaces. Effective plans for rehabilitating the city were lost in the bureaucratic babble of congressional committees, commissions, boards and councils that govern Washington...
Four of a breed of so-called "new mayors" in the United States will come to Cambridge next month for a discussion on "Where to Find the Power to Govern...
...question raised by the Communist challenge is "whether we can govern ourselves," he stated. Americans can't even demonstrate that democracy works here, the people in the rest of the world won't pay any attention to them...