Word: government
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Against. France's political elders were shocked. "Getting a majority is like getting married; it takes more than one party," quipped the irrepressible Premier Faure. Mollet insisted: "We are persuaded that people can govern together only if they are in agreement on one program, however limited. We will say before the Assembly-this is our program. Those who will be for will vote for. Those who will be against will vote against." For France, the idea was almost revolutionary...
...dismaying result of the whole dismaying election. For the third time since the war, Frenchmen had gone to the polls-a healthy 82% of the eligible turned out-and, in an Assembly of 626 seats (30 of them to be decided later in Algeria), had dissipated the power to govern among four main blocs, roughly as follows: ¶ Communists: 150. ¶ Left-of-center coalition (Pierre Mendès-France and Socialists): 160. ¶ Right-of-center coalition (Premier Edgar Faure, Roman Catholic M.R.P., Independents): 200. ¶ Poujadists...
...remnants of the old empire) simmered last week with such hot-tempered politics. Only a few days remained before 26 million Frenchmen were to go to the polls and with their ballots reveal what the politicians called "tomorrow's secret": Who, or rather, what new coalition shall next govern France...
...laws that govern spin temperatures at -K. are not for physics beginners, and ordinary rules of thermodynamics do not work. They lead to the incorrect conclusion that a heat engine operating below absolute zero can do work, e.g., produce mechanical energy, without affecting the temperature of the material that it is ' using as an energy source. Professor Ramsey proposes that one of the thermodynamics laws (among the most sacred in physics) be changed to preclude the possibility of a -K. perpetual-motion machine...
Speaking with James A. Wechsler, editor of the New York Post, Buckley asserted that this conformity "is created by a series of axioms planted in the academic world that govern both teaching and the writing of books...