Word: governed
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Poor. He might think it's easy to govern, but winning will be difficult. Of the five candidates, he's currently fourth in the polls...
...pros are free agents, choosing to play the events they like, while each tournament director scrambles to woo top names. De Villiers is the referee, trying to strengthen tennis while balancing the needs of tournament directors and players. To complicate matters, national or local tennis federations govern the Grand Slams--the Australian, French and U.S. Opens and Wimbledon, the sport's biggest events--and the International Tennis Federation oversees Davis Cup matches between countries. The result is a scheduling nightmare in which even the smallest changes become political...
...what makes this book a must read? In the end, this is not so much a book about how poorly and incompetently the administration has managed to govern the country, but rather how the country as a whole—American citizens, journalists, the media, everyone—has forsaken real truths to settle for half-truths, or what comedian Stephen Colbert wittily called “truthiness...
...think we got it right, both when we decided to expel him from Kuwait, but also when the President made the decision that we’d achieved our objectives and we were not going to go get bogged down in the problems of trying to take over and govern Iraq...
...problem for Correa, Shifter points out, is that by playing "the quintessential anti-establishment candidate," one who will take on not only Ecuador's corrupt ruling class but also the military and other entrenched institutions, "you wonder how he'll be able to govern if he's elected and creates that kind of atmosphere of confrontation...