Word: governing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...herdboy on his father's tribal lands in northern Uganda, young Apollo Milton Obote often pondered how it would be to govern people rather than sheep or goats. Speaking to his charges as if they were human and he their chief, he soon discovered that keeping them in order required him both to prod them along and win their cooperation. Now the President of Uganda, Obote is governing his country in much the same way. Last week, as Uganda's 8,000,000 people prepared for this week's celebration of the fifth anniversary of their independence...
These arguments have a common rationale: Students do not have the maturity to govern their personal lives in college; or if they do have the maturity, they do not have the right. Such paternalism has no place at Harvard. It ignores the College's responsibility to educate its students in the uses of freedom. Restrictive social regulations prevent students from learning to deal with their own social problems--as they must the minute they leave Harvard's Houses...
...epicanthic fold that gives some Asian peoples, among them the Japanese and the Chinese, a slant-eyed look. Evolutionary hypothesis has traced this feature to its probable source. The predominant theory is that it developed from a mutation-a random change in the elaborate chemistry of human chromosomes, which govern man's biological evolution. For arctic and desert-dwelling people, subjected to blinding blizzards of snow or sand, the eye fold had definite survival value: it increased the eyes' protection against such hazards. Thus the trait endured...
Though he will have considerably broader authority than the city's cumbersome three-man executive board, Washington, who will govern with a yet to be appointed nine-man city council, will have less authority than most other big-city mayors. Not only will he owe his $28,500 job ($6,500 less than he made in New York) to the White House rather than the city's voters, but he must also pass his budget through Congress, most particularly the frequently unsympathetic House District Committee...
Into his place stepped the Sultan of Lahej, whose state is relatively prosperous because of its heavy trade in narcotics and firearms. It was unclear, however, just how much of the federation remained for the Sultan to govern. While the army looked the other way, another band of N.L.F. guerrillas made off with yet another member of the government, the Sultan of Lower Yafa. By week's end, the National Liberation Front-at present the stronger of the rebel groups-claimed it had gained control of ten states and would soon "overthrow the rest of the reactionary feudalists...