Word: governments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Clinton, still running third in the national polls, the vice- presidential choice represents his best opportunity to put his campaign back on track. The stakes are even higher for Perot, who needs to prove that he can govern without the benefit of a political party. But Perot also risks jeopardizing his all-things-to-all-voters appeal if he selects a Vice President who comes complete with heavy ideological baggage...
There have been times when Yeltsin has come close to squandering what he calls his "credit of trust" with the Russian people. He has been known simply to drop out of sight for days at a time -- leaving squabbling subordinates to govern. Opponents have raised questions about the President's reputed fondness for alcohol, accusing him of arriving drunk for a meeting last month in Uzbekistan. Yeltsin denounced the charge as "a big campaign to discredit the President, reform and authority." Still, he possesses one quality of leadership that sets him apart from Gorbachev: he is courageous and confident enough...
...other's stereotypes of patients." A common mnemonic used in medical school to help identify women who develop gallstones is "fat, 40, with four kids." $ Says the author: "It took forever for me to see slender, unmarried women as candidates for gallbladder disease." Prejudiced and mistaken notions also can govern the treatment offered to black women, lesbians and those with a history of venereal disease. For example, says Smith, a doctor quickly diagnosed in a young, married black woman chronic pelvic inflammatory disease -- an ailment that results from previous venereal infection -- though nothing in her history supported such a judgment...
...hierarchy exercises over the lives of members. McKean, 37, who left the 3,700-member Boston flock in 1990 to head its Los Angeles offshoot, is the undisputed leader. He personally instructed 10 male elders and assigned them to supervise various regions around the world. McKean says these leaders govern by consensus but adds, "I'm the one who gives them direction." Says Al Baird, a veteran Boston elder: "It's not a dictatorship. It's a theocracy, with...
...their political power if not closely scrutinized." The court's narrow interpretation of the law, says Lani Guinier, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania law school, could presage "a very anemic view of political participation in which blacks can vote and even win office, but they can't govern...