Word: governing
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When George W. Bush was reelected president last November by a margin of 3 percent of the popular vote, his first act was to claim an unambiguous mandate to govern the country. Since then, the policies of the second Bush administration have veered fundamentally from the moderate, centrist agenda he stressed during his campaign. The unwillingness of our chief executive to take the necessary steps to reach across party lines and ideologies has paralyzed his own initiatives and distracted a divided country sick of partisan bickering...
...raised in Silver Spring, Maryland ... We were too lazy to govern ourselves. Our town motto was 'I'd like to vote, but I don't feel like driving...
...deliver the news and the two of us then met with several other UC members that same day to discuss what to do next. Ian chose to resign, and did so because, as he said, he did not make the UC his top priority. According to the rules that govern the UC, a new Vice President was to be elected at the following UC meeting—and that is exactly what happened...
...claim little more than a tenuous mandate. Capp, who failed to win the position in last December’s elections, won the post by the narrowest of margins against an opponent who is to graduate in three weeks. The executive board, lacking a clear and strong mandate to govern, should now be highly self-critical and especially careful in the decisions that they make about spending student money...
...Americans, intoxicated with the idea of democracy, can't recognize when it has ceased to function effectively in other countries. Multiparty democracy certainly hasn't worked very well in Nepal since its inception 14 years ago. The King took control of the government three months ago, and since then there have been some positive results. I know firsthand that the government bureaucracy functions more efficiently. Additionally, corruption is being rooted out. Sometimes a benevolent dictator is required to govern the less developed. If King Gyanendra turns out to be benevolent, he will be remembered in history as the father...