Word: regions
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GOVERNMENT by a strong executive, by Cabinet, by legislature -these are the terms most often used in assessing the two-party system. Less frequently discussed is the question of cohesive party rule. Given their fragmented condition, neither major U.S. party today is cemented to a clearly defined constituency of region or class; both grope for a majority among shifting factions. In a recent speech, Richard Nixon argued that there is an alternative, that in fact a first-of-its-kind "new alignment for American unity" has been forming...
...gets stored in a separate part of the cell, away from the rest of the cell's proteins. Kafatos thus could measure how much of each kind of protein the cell was synthesizing at any one time, simply by looking at how much new protein was added to each region...
...upset West Germany's politics is a tall (6 ft. 2 in.), hard-driving Pomeranian who was a World War II Panzer of ficer.* Von Thadden manages to play skillfully on the self-pitying, nationalist feelings of many Germans. In Baden-Württemberg, a region known for its unemotional, middle-of-the-road politics, he conducted a restrained and low-key campaign. His biggest pitch was for law and order, an issue that has become as topical in West Germany as in the U.S. Speaking about student disorders, Von Thadden proposed a simple solution: Jail the troublemakers...
...areas. Why not generate electricity at the fuel source-distant oil or coal fields-and then wire it to cities? On the other hand, industrialization must not be taken to distant places that can be better used for other purposes. Industrializing Appalachia, for example, would smogify a naturally hazy region that settlers aptly named the Smokies. The right business for Appalachia is recreation; federal money could spur a really sizable tourist industry...
...diesel-engine output of its British plant in the U.S., while all of RCA's tape recorders and 80% of General Electric loudspeakers are made in Japan. Other advantages of U.S. industry are gradually fading. The growth of the Common Market, for example, gives the world another region where economies of size are possible. To make matters worse, complains Chairman George Moore of Manhattan's First National City Bank, "too few people are interested in exporting. The world has a hell of a time buying American products...