Word: governments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same time, television is a fact of life, and a President in the '80s will have to use television effectively in order to govern effectively. The challenge will be to find a way to use it that enlightens rather than obfuscates...
Dormant since 1977, when it recommended the regulations currently governing DNA research in the city, the Cambridge Experimentation Review Board (CERB) will study recent calls for stiff guidelines to govern commercial manufacture using recombinant DNA techniques within the city...
...truth is that both men are desperately out of touch with the mood and the needs of the people they propose to govern. Neither has come close to challenging the rationale for American aggression in southeast Asia, and neither seems capable of the kind of complete disavowal which can best pave the way for an across-the-board restructuring of U.S. foreign policy...
...idea that a debate between two candidates on TV should determine which is better qualified is extraordinary. If one knows more facts than the other, that's not the only thing--the president, after all, has lots of people to get facts for him." Huntington agrees: "Who can govern the country best shouldn't be the one who can appeal most...
That the choice of who will govern the nation for four years may well depend on the acts of a hostile, often irrational Iranian government and the impression two carefully rehearsed politicians make in a fleeting 90 minutes of TV time is deeply disquieting. But in a sense the election has been building toward that kind of bizarre climax. For more than a year, two flawed candidates have been floundering toward the final showdown, each unable to give any but his most unquestioning supporters much reason to vote for him except dislike of his opponent. Carter has been dogged...