But the black-box government in the textbooks—an eagerly practical benevolent despot is not the roiling, riven democratic government we enjoy.
In the South, despite more robust efforts from the US NATO contingents, counterinsurgency operations in Kandahar and Marjah have similarly failed to degrade the IEA's ability to fight, reduce the number of civilian combat fatalities (p.13) or deliver boxed Government".
Mr. Rusk blamed the tax, zoning, housing and education policies of Long Island's "frustrating maze of little-box governments: 109 villages, towns and cities and 129 school districts".
The implication must be that hardliners, who were against the nuclear deal with the international community, want to roll back modest liberalisation at home and are inflexible on Syria, may have tried to seize the opportunity, as they see it, to box their government in to more aggressive policies.
One danger is that a hostile nationalism will box the government in and increase the risk of conflict with the United States over Taiwan, or with Japan over a set of disputed islands known to Tokyo as the Senkaku and to Beijing as the Diaoyu.
"In their anxiety to show that they have invented something out of the box, the government has gone ahead and implemented a programme with no basic understanding of the science of hydrology or even ecology," he told the BBC.
If the obvious hysteria demonstrated in this survey, and indeed over the last 18 months through countless hours of negative press surrounding MySpace and many other social networking destinations translates to the ballot box, big Government is ready and waiting to impose a raft of legislative rules and regulations on a future generation of Silicon Valley social networking start ups.
Divorce doesn't just mean that the ring comes off your finger, and you have to check the "divorced" box in government documents.
Box 5 Government recommendations As a consumer of health information I get very upset when I'm given random statements without any theory behind it.
He once swore to "blow up the boxes" of government, and last year he commissioned a "California Performance Review" to help him.
