Word: governed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...treat it as an end in itself . . . If for any reason the war should start at any level, it would be an unfair restriction on our South Vietnamese allies to prohibit them from replacing their weapons if their enemies are able to do so... This is what will govern our actions...
...since the 1973 Paris accords, to about 230 members, the total U.S. investment in Nguyen Van Thieu's crumbling nation still amounts to a paltry $25 million-or about the cost of half a day of the war at its height. Skeptical of Thieu's ability to govern and frightened by the country's runaway inflation, U.S. multinational corporations have never been willing to risk large amounts of capital in Viet Nam-even though the Saigon government set up the Industrial Development Bank to solicit foreign investment and announced grandiose plans to erect industrial parks, hotels with...
...know that that was so. ITT offered our CIA one million dollars to block Allende's election. We are told that that offer was refused. In effect, the Nixon Administration told ITT to keep its money: the administration would make it impossible for Allende to govern, using the tax-payer's money...
...clerical and technical employees in the Medical Area should have a union; at-present these employees have no voice in the personnel policies that govern their lives. A University-wide union would require organizing 4,000 clerical and technical workers, spread throughout Cambridge, Boston, and Allston. The organizing committee has had a difficult enough task just trying to unionize the 800 employees in the Medical Area. But their drive is now almost over--all that remains is the NLRB ruling on their request to hold a union-forming election. Although Harvard maintains that its actions are motivated by administrative necessities...
Cadre Shortage. If only because the Khmer Rouge has also suffered in recent fighting, the Lon Nol government could hold out until the rains return in May, thereby gaining several more months of power. On the other hand, the insurgents could decide to hold back in their attack on the capital, preferring to let the government cave in sooner or later from its own weight. In this way the Khmer Rouge could put off assuming the awesome burden of running -and feeding-a capital that is overflowing with thousands of hungry refugees and hundreds of wounded soldiers and civilians...