Word: governing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...claim that only a sky's-the-limit missiles buildup budget can effectively communicate our seriousness to the Soviets and become bearish on defense. Either way, the country is not likely to get the affordable national security we need, which is just what happens when reason tails to govern...
...photographers clicked away, Gorbachev pleaded for a respite: "Comrades, economize your supplies." Yet the British also found Gorbachev a cool, reflective man quite capable of a steely riposte. When a Conservative Member of Parliament asked about the persecution of religious minorities in the Soviet Union, Gorbachev shot back: "You govern your society and you leave us to govern ours." The visitor's annoyance, the M.P. recalled, was "electrifying...
...alternative to Feldstein? According to the majority opinion, the establishment of a committee of faculty members to govern Ec 10 can best present future "autocratic" decisions. Unfortunately, it is not apparent how such a committee would work or, indeed, whether it could be made to work at all. Who would choose the committee? How would they vote--by majority or by unanimity? Pragmatic questions, such as these are too often ignored for the sake of a lofty ideal...
...ever since the founding of this nation, lawmakers and courts have also recognized a vital competing right: for society to have free and open discussion of public issues and the performance of public officials, so that an informed people can govern themselves. To further that goal, the First Amendment guarantee of freedom was written on behalf of a press that was far more noisy, brawling and partisan than the much maligned journalism of today. As a California judge noted in his opinion in a 1979 libel case, George Washington was called a murderer, Thomas Jefferson a blackguard and a knave...
Shortly after dawn late last week, the ramrod-stiff figure of General Fabian Ver, the armed forces Chief of Staff, arrived at a govern ment office building in downtown Manila to surrender himself. Two days earlier the Tanodbayan--a four-member panel of ombudsmen--had indicted Ver, 24 other members of the military and one civil ian for their alleged involvement in the 1983 murders of Opposition Leader Benigno ("Ninoy") Aquino Jr. and of Rolando Galman, the man said by the military to have killed Aquino. Ver brought $1,600 to post as bail, then left before any photographers showed...