These megacity mayors reflect and embody the ascendency of cities in a world of dysfunctional nation-states.
But he represents the moral and spiritual core of this dysfunctional nation and no politician dares to challenge him openly.
Long before Bennet came to work in the "land of flickering lights," as he mockingly calls the dysfunctional nation's capital where he grew up, Frank Capra dreamed him up.
On a more productive albeit somber note, medical, public health, government, military, and other organizations developed the wherewithal to visit the dust-encased and dysfunctional state of the nation's disaster plans and increasingly clamored for greater resources and improved coordination.
This is one (but far from the only) reason that Albany is home to what may be the most dysfunctional state government in the nation.
A19 NEW YORK/REGION B1-8 Study Gives Failing Mark To New York's Legislature A study by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law called New York's legislature the least deliberative, most dysfunctional state legislature in the nation.
The illusion among many New Yorkers that their state government was operating effectively was shattered last month when the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law came out with a report showing that New York had the least deliberative, most dysfunctional state legislature in the nation.
It's hard to believe that just 130 miles from Silicon Valley is Sacramento, home to what has to be among the nation's most dysfunctional state governments; a place where partisan gridlock and status quo-thinking produce inertia.
The difficulty of being all things to all men would rapidly become apparent.The near abroadThese storm-clouds aside, one unsung success of the Howard years has been its willingness to take up the burden of the South Pacific, a collection of dysfunctional island nations that no one else wants to grapple with.
Six months before the world financial crisis reached its peak, forcing taxpayers to rescue collapsing financial institutions, King told US officials in London that the UK, US, Switzerland and Japan could jointly enable a multibillion-pound cash injection into global banks, overriding the "dysfunctional" G7 nations.
Through his prism, the author describes Kenya's history over the past two decades, "probing the roots of a dysfunctional African nation".In this section How to ruin a country Reagan's rebellion All beak and claws Waterway triumphs Always with us?
