Word: government
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...Antarctic component of the IGY worked so well that after the project ended, President Dwight Eisenhower invited the eleven other nations that had built bases to join the U.S. in an agreement that would govern all activities on and around the frozen continent. The resulting Antarctic Treaty, ratified in 1961, forbids military activity, bans nuclear explosions and radioactive- waste disposal, and mandates international cooperation and freedom of scientific inquiry. Moreover, those participating countries that claimed chunks of Antarctica as their own agreed not to press those claims while the treaty remained in force. Over the years, 13 other countries have...
During his presidential campaign, Collor hammered away at the antigovernment, antibureaucracy theme. He promised to privatize many of Brazil's oversize state industries, strip away excessive layers of government staffing, crack down on waste and corruption, bring the federal budget in line with reality and reduce inflation to 3% a month -- low by Brazilian standards. He also promised to spend $94 billion on housing, education and health services for the poor. Collor's resulting popularity among the country's shirt-sleeved masses, declared a bitter Lula, is undeserved. The President- elect, he predicted, "will govern in favor of big business...
Collor's skills as a political tactician will also be tested. His power base, the National Reconstruction Party, controls only a few seats in the congress. The new President will need to create alliances with centrist parties and rely on a bandwagon effect from his victory to govern effectively. Though he denies it, Collor is known to be deeply superstitious, never entering a room, for example, except with his right foot first. Now he needs to keep his right foot forward for five long years...
...exploiting those ideas is not making us competitive with the Europeans and the Japanese. Our cities are really falling apart; our educational system is in great disarray; and in order to finance our budget and trade deficits, we're selling more and more of our businesses. Our Government is unable to govern because it has no money, or it is using the fact that it has no money as an excuse not to govern. Meanwhile, the Japanese and the Europeans are pulling together, accumulating capital and being very single-minded in their pursuit of a world in which military strength...
...dictators govern by fear. Long-suffering citizens obey orders only because they are convinced that a single individual has no hope of opposing the overwhelming forces loyal to the state. A dictator falls when fear changes sides, when individuals coalesce into crowds and defy him. Emboldened by the discovery that they are not alone, they take to the streets and squares to protest, and they learn -- though sometimes at great cost -- that no tyrant can kill or arrest an entire nation. At that point, despots lose the special combination of visible authority and legitimacy that the Chinese call "the mandate...