Word: governments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Prabhu stepped down Friday, saying that controversy over a fixed election for social committee co-chairs jeopardized the council's ability to govern...
Economies now depend on the relentless search for new needs, new markets. Democracy by its nature spurs change: no other system replaces leaders and rewrites the social contract with such speed because none other presupposes that government renew its right to govern virtually every day. The rise of individualism across the world speeds change because ideas about how to live now emanate from millions of minds rather than a handful of institutional authorities. Communications technology is eroding the meaning of nationality, ethnicity and borders...
...world no longer has the leisure of the two centuries Mauritius took to develop a conservation ethic. In the past, natural forces shaped the environment. Now, unless a new round of volcanism erupts worldwide or a comet courses in from outer space, human activities will govern the destiny of earth's ecosystems. It may soon be within human power to produce the republics of grass and insects that writer Jonathan Schell believed would be the barren legacy of nuclear war. If humanity fails to seek an accord with nature, population control may be imposed involuntarily by the environment itself...
...Government is for slaves. Free people can govern themselves, "he adds...
...Bush's reluctance to debate. Clinton campaign chairman Micky Kantor argues, "If you are going to develop a mandate -- and have a successful presidency -- it is important to use the debate process to reach 90 million Americans." But the rest of the campaign is about a mandate to govern as well. So the question remains: Will Clinton use his lead to talk honestly to the voters, or merely try to nurse it as he counts down the days until...