Word: rule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last February's elections, in which Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's Congress Party, in an unprecedented defeat, lost control of nine of India's 17 states. In only one of those states did a non-Congress party emerge with a large enough majority to rule alone. In all of the others, the vote was so splintered that the parties were forced to form coalitions that sometimes included as many as 14 parties of wildly incompatible political persuasions. The result in some states was chaos, in others instability. Taking advantage of this situation, the Congress Party...
...employers in their offices. To oust the Reds, Congress threw its support to a defecting coalition minister, who formed a new government. In Haryana, the legislators switched parties with such rapidity that the workings of the government were paralyzed. New Delhi placed the state under direct "President's rule" and ordered new elections to be held after a one-year cooling-off period. Though two religious parties managed to form a fairly strong coalition in the Punjab, the Congress Party successfully brought down the coalition by offering to throw its support to a Sikh minister if he would form...
...onset of the winter sports season signals the renewal of Harvard's worry over the National Collegiate Athletic Association's 1.6 athletic eligibility rule...
Unless the 1.6 rule is abolished or a satisfactory compromise is reached at the NCAA convention in January, Harvard's outstanding winter athletes will not be allowed to compete on a national basis...
Last year NCAA President Marcus Plante declared a moratorium on the ruling and invited the Ivy League to participate in winter and spring competition while the 1.6 rule was under view. The moratorium ended this fall...