Word: governs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quite in a republic," he warned somberly in his kickoff speech before 20,000 faithful at Paris' Porte de Versailles. "We live in a form of disguised monarchy that may no longer be constitutional." But the Socialist leader studiously evades the most awkward question: With whom would he govern, now that the Socialist-Communist Alliance of the '70s is dead? Disingenuously, Mitterrand answers that if elected, he would call for new parliamentary elections and then form a coalition based on whatever majority emerges. He is deliberately vague because he must strike a delicate balance...
Such actions infuriated many conservative international bankers. They had reluctantly gone along with the freezing of assets, even though there was little precedent for it in international law, but were afraid that the rush of lawsuits would upset the gentlemanly rules that govern the Western financial community. Some bankers muttered that the Carter Administration was doing permanent damage to the global banking system...
...govern Holy Apostles and handle disputes, the planners set up a joint council. Music proved troublesome, so the church alternates Catholic chants and contemporary music with the Episcopal hymnal. Barton and Gross take turns preaching and presiding at services and assist each other during baptisms and confirmations. Holy Apostles has developed into a thriving congregation of 300 members, two-thirds of them Catholic. One reason it has not grown faster is that it expects worshipers to do pastoral work; most are active visiting hospitals and prisons and in other part-time ministries. Says Episcopalian Carolyn Pollie, a mother of four...
...country. Gone were the pugnacious stance and spirited oratory with which Begin once stirred his followers to action. All that remained was an almost irrational obsession to cling to power for a few more weeks or months, even if he no longer had an effective mandate to govern. Day after day, in an unseemly bid to withstand an opposition call for early elections, Begin's ministers scrambled to buy another vote or two in the Israeli parliament, the Knesset...
RESIGNED. Ella Grasso, 61, popular, twice-elected Democratic Governor of Connecticut whose victory in 1974 made her the first woman to govern a state without succeeding her husband; by reason of "physical disability" resulting from cancer of the liver; in Hartford, Conn. Daughter of immigrants from Italy's Piedmont region, she rose through the state legislature and the U.S. House of Representatives, marrying a school principal, Thomas Grasso, and rearing a daughter and son along the way. In a typically forthright announcement, she said she would yield to Lieutenant Governor William A. O'Neill...