Word: governs
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...fine year for the states, and perhaps something more. On one level, it appeared that the Governors were simply being freed to govern. But the repeated pledges of federal leaders and a blizzard of state-friendly legislation suggested something larger. Some thought they saw American government decentralizing itself, heading back to either the Jeffersonian ideals of local governance and part-time legislators (if you are a fan) or the social miseries of the 1920s and pollution of the 1970s (if you are not). Said Geoffrey Garin, a Democratic pollster: ``This is the opening debate over the radical Republican agenda.'' Senate...
...powerless to stop. Financial markets, al- ready spooked by the Chechen conflict and further unnerved by the atmosphere of political uncertainty, drove the ruble toward an all-time low against the dollar, even as a delegation from the International Monetary Fund was in Moscow to review the govern- ment's commitment to economic reform. At stake is a $12 billion loan package to back an economic-stabilization program. Parliament jeopardized that program last week by deciding to delay a critical vote on the 1995 budget that is intended to curb runaway government spending and re- duce the deficit. A revised...
...Three, Fox was a tough competitor because it played by different rules. Even though it now programs 15 hours of prime time a week -- one FCC benchmark for what constitutes a network -- Fox has managed to avoid the commission restrictions on program ownership and syndication that govern the Big Three. This annoys the other networks, which argue that Fox receives an unfair competitive advantage from Washington while it escapes such public-interest obligations as maintaining a news division...
Among those not protected by the new legislation are students living off-campus. The same rules must apply to them that govern all other renters, as they are not elderly, handicapped or necessarily poor. If students choose not to live in University housing, the community as a whole has no obligation to support them. They should consider themselves lucky to have been able to exploit the system until...
...actively resented. Assuming that alumni who agitated for years to keep the clubs all-male will open their hearts (and their Rolodexes) to new women members without a second thought ignores the lessons of recent history. As virtually any African-American can tell you, changing the official rules that govern society will not necessarily affect peoples' opinions and prejudices, nor will it reform the informal power structures that determine so much of our lives...