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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...going directly to the people. I don't have a national headquarters or staff. I don't have any money. I don't have pollsters or consultants or media advisers or political endorsements. But I have something even better. I have the power of ideas, and I can govern this country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ghost Of Gary Past | 12/28/1987 | See Source »

...declare that Bourguiba, 84, had been ousted. Citing a constitutional provision allowing the President to be removed if he is incapacitated, the Prime Minister claimed that a team of seven doctors had examined Bourguiba, who suffers from arteriosclerosis and Parkinson's disease, and found him unfit to govern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tunisia Defeat of the Supreme Combatant | 11/16/1987 | See Source »

Global Regulation. The speed at which the crash circled the world made it clear that Tokyo, London and Manhattan are all connected outposts in a vast trading market. Yet the rules that govern stock trading can differ radically from country to country -- and indeed from one city to another. Some Congressmen are proposing that the Chicago futures markets be put under the authority of the Securities and Exchange Commission, which controls the stock markets. At the moment, the futures trading pits are supervised by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which also regulates such mundane commodities as pork bellies and grain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Crash: Cranking Up the Reform Machine | 11/9/1987 | See Source »

Mussolini once remarked, "It is not impossible to govern the Italians, it is merely useless." It is not impossible to lead Americans as a nation. It is just that the Founding Fathers did not think it was a particularly good idea. Says Historian James MacGregor Burns: "Leadership itself is one of the most mentioned and least understood processes in the American system. What we have in this country is an antileadership system bequeathed to us by the Founding Fathers because they feared overly strong Government. It is quite ironic that we end this bicentennial year with a dramatic example...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Crash: Who's in Charge? | 11/9/1987 | See Source »

...most closely watched municipal election, a costly, racially tinged campaign in which Goode, a Black, sought to hold off a comeback by former Democratic mayor-turned-Republican Rizzo. The bitter campaign cost an estimated $3.7 million, as each candidate called the other a liar in their quest to govern the "City of Brotherly Love...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Goode Leads in Philadelphia; Wilkinson Elected Gov. in Ky. | 11/4/1987 | See Source »

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