Word: governs
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Since Washington, with Negroes making up 55 per cent of its population, is the only major U.S. city with a Negro majority, it was inevitable that segregationists should begin citing it one day as an example of "the Negro's inability to govern." For the District of Columbia is, undeniably, a mess. Just who is responsible for the mess is another question. To begin with, the mess has very little to do with crime. Reporters find it exciting to present accounts of visitors being robbed "within sight of the Capitol dome," but it is still true that of the twelve...
...government, said Home, its choice "is whether to treat the country as a chronic invalid, taking its temperature and feeling its pulse every five minutes to see if it is strong enough to be told the facts of life, or whether to assume that the body politic of the country is robust and its mind mature and its heart sound and to tell the people what the hour demands, confident they will rise to the occasion. The country has a right to assume that men's minds will be as modern as the machinery they tend, that private enterprise...
Since his election last July, Illia has said next to nothing about how he intends to govern. He is considered pro-West and pro-free enterprise, though he campaigned on a nationalistic platform threatening to annul the controversial oil contracts signed by Frondizi's government with foreign companies between 1958 and 1960. Last week, a national investigation board ruled that the contracts, in effect, were illegal. Yet Illia has said privately that the whole oil issue has been blown out of proportion, and he is expected only to renegotiate the contracts on terms more favorable to Argentina...
...countered Burleson, many Democrats are disturbed about Govern ment extravagance. Replied Kennedy: "You've already cut more than $4 billion this year." Maybe so, said Burleson, but he had computed that new programs urged by the Administration would cost $17 billion over five years. "That's a figure I never heard," said Kennedy. Within an hour, Kennedy called back. The budget bureau, he reported, did not agree with Burleson. Politely, the two chatted on about taxes and economy in government...
...directive will govern all research conducted outside the Medical School where similar regulations have been in force for five years...