Word: governments
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...meeting late Friday evening, the state and federal agencies involved in the case hammered out a protocol to govern the inquiry. The first priority was to stabilize the pillars that hold up the Vista Hotel on the Trade Center plaza and which were supported in turn by the garage floors that were ripped away in the blast. Before investigators can safely enter the blast site, workers must buttress the dangerous sagging remnants of the garage and lay a web of tubular steel beams across the crater left by the bomb. It may be days before investigators can begin to sift...
Reiter also attempts to use an overwhelming assumption to assist her argument when she urges Clinton Administration officials to make a "quick review" of the Declaration of Independence. There, she says, they would find it written that "the government is our creation for our needs, not an independent entity that should follow its own opinion in matters that affect us." Whether the Declaration can really be interpreted in this way is questionable, but it is unquestionable that the Constitution establishes a republic in which the people elect representatives to govern on their behalf. This does not imply the sort...
...will suffer the taint. As it suffered in 1964 when Barry Goldwater declared famously that "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice." That welcoming nod to the John Birchers and other right-wing nuts convinced millions of Americans that Goldwater and his party were not fit to govern...
...that the election is over and Clinton is preparing to govern, the promised national service initiative is shrinking amidst concerns about the program's cost and feasibility...
FINALLY, ON HIS WAY OUT THE DOOR OF THE OVAL OFfice, George Bush is getting serious about Somalia. In the way the U.S. is now responding, the President is affirming an important principle: once a country utterly loses its ability to govern itself, it also loses its claim to sovereignty and should become a ward of the United Nations...