Word: governed
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...There should be no predetermined outcome. I believe the people of Ireland have the intelligence to govern ourselves," he said...
...like a family of people," Shanker says, "a tribe of people, who live a nomadic lifestyle sort of like the yogis of old, who by my experience, try to live by the principles that govern the universe...
University officials acknowledge that they have few rules to govern illicit material taken off the network. Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 says the Administrative Board, Harvard's disciplinary body, has never seen a case of Internet pornography...
TELECOMMUNICATIONS: In an effort to keep up with rapidly changing technology, both houses have been working to update the laws and regulations that govern the telephone and television industries, with the goals of encouraging competition and accelerating construction of the information superhighway. In June, by comfortable margins, the House passed two bills (now combined into one, designated HR3626) intended to increase competition among cable-TV and phone companies. The bill would permit regional phone companies, the so-called Baby Bells, to get into the long-distance phone business from which they are now barred in exchange for granting their competitors...
...parties struggled to agree on a new President. They might have succeeded if the Rwandan capital of Kigali had not fallen to the Tutsi-dominated Rwandan | Patriotic Front on July 4. The victory emboldened Burundi's Tutsi opposition to make more demands, creating a dangerous stalemate. "There is a government, but the whole structure is weak and barely functioning," says a Western diplomat in Bujumbura. "There are 27 ministers, 11 of whom are from the opposition. There is an interim President afraid of his own shadow." The Tutsi-dominated military hovers in the background, alert for an opportunity to take...