Word: government
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...providing leadership for the diffuse, sprawling metropolis that was described 30 years ago as "19 suburbs in search of a city"; today there are 64 suburbs, and they are still searching. Yorty has protested that the mayor's power is so limited he is scarcely able to govern...
Though so extensive a pullback was not expected, the fact that Canada was taking an entirely fresh look at the Atlantic alliance was no secret. Trudeau, who tends to govern his country almost as if he were conducting a leisurely seminar, has devoted his first year in office more to tossing problems to task forces for study than to providing any new directions for Canadian policies. None of Trudeau's task-force assignments have provoked livelier discussion at home, or greater misgivings abroad, than his question whether the time had come to bring home the troops...
...three-day student strike called yesterday by the assembly in Memorial Church is a vote of no confidence in the Administration's response to the demonstration and in the Corporation's ability to govern. It also provides a breathing spell for organizing a broadly-based coalition which could make a revolutionary change in the distribution of political power at Harvard...
COMMUNITY SCHOOLS in Roxbury, New York, San Francisco and Philadelphia are demonstrating daily that parents with minimal education can govern schools and govern them well. They are also proving that even the poorest ghetto community can offer valuable and inexpensive education resources to anyone who makes the effort to recruit them...
...PRESIDENT'S intransigence on ROTC--his inability to accept another viewpoint--shook the liberals' faith in his ability to govern the University in what they considered a satisfactory manner. He was questioned by liberal Faculty members on whether the University's investment policy was too conservative; and later on whether it didn't in fact serve the interests of State Street Bank...