Word: pye
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Initiative petitions to change state law go to the Legislature. If they are approved and signed by the governor, they become law. If the proposals are rejected, supporters can gather 8421 additional signatures to put them on the 1990 ballot, said Susan Pye, a spokesperson for Connolly...
Constitutional amendments must garner 25 percent support from constitutional conventions this spring and in the spring of 1991 to be placed on the ballot in 1992. If the joint legislative sessions reject the proposed change in the state constitution either time, the initiative dies, Pye said...
Feigned compliance is the term used by Lucian Pye, a political scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to describe such self-protective make-believe and the obedience it spawns. As a trait central to the Chinese character, feigned compliance has distinct Confucian roots, and Confucius is very much in vogue in China today. Not for that part of his philosophy that extols good-heartedness and broad-mindedness, but for his celebration of authority, hierarchy and anti-individualism. For the purposes of China's leaders, what counts is that Confucius presumed the ruler's right to rule...
...their finances. The aim is to create "student- athletes" -- talented players with the smarts to do well academically. The concept is hardly new, but it is rare in the conference, and its feasibility at a football palace like S.M.U. remains to be seen. The reformist president, A. Kenneth Pye, is enthusiastic. "We're not talking Rhodes scholars," he says. "But you don't see idiots playing for Joe Paterno. You don't see them at Notre Dame." Pye's new athletic director, Doug Single, is equally fervent, promising "there will be no more majoring in 'staying eligible.' Running a clean...
Including Tate, Rowe, Gibber, Eusden, Pye...