Word: government
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...Maine, a member of the Senate's vanishing moderate wing, announced he would not seek re-election this year--the 13th Senator to do so. Cohen attributed his decision to the current budget stalemate, prompting the White House to express concern over the political center's "capacity to govern." In the House of Representatives, meanwhile, the retirement list grew to 35, when Pennsylvania's William Clinger said he would quit...
...book, At Home in the Universe (Oxford University Press; $25), theoretical biologist Stuart Kauffman of the Santa Fe Institute argues that underlying the creative commotion during the Cambrian are laws that we have only dimly glimpsed - laws that govern not just biological evolution but also the evolution of physical, chemical and technological systems. The fanciful animals that first appeared on nature's sketchpad remind Kauffman of early bicycles, with their odd-size wheels and strangely angled handlebars. "Soon after a major innovation," he writes, "discovery of profoundly different variations is easy. Later innovation is limited to modest improvements on increasingly...
...agreement to come out of the negotiations at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio was between the two parties who are already supposed to be allies. Last Friday Secretary of State Warren Christopher presided over the signing of a pact to strengthen the Bosnian-Croat Federation that will govern slightly more than half of Bosnia and Herzegovina when an overall peace is achieved. The Bosnian Muslims and Croats spent most of 1993 and the early part of 1994 killing each other, but in March 1994, Washington brokered an alliance between them. The agreement last week reinforces the federation...
...also take a larger toll. At a time when popular faith in public institutions is reaching an all-time low, presidential candidates pile on at their own risk. "It creates a circular problem," observes Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the University of Pennsylvania. "The more politicians complain about the government they would be part of, the harder it is for them to govern...
Still, it is not at all obvious that Jiang will ever demonstrate that he has the wisdom and strength to govern China under current conditions. The Communist Party has lost much of its authority among the people, who are convinced, as Deng told them, that "to get rich is glorious." Yet the economy is uneven. It registered 11.8% real growth last year, but the inflation rate peaked above 25%, and more than 40 million people are unemployed, while 100 million others are underemployed. The Chinese feel alienated from the government because of pervasive official corruption and memories...