Word: backroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vote underlined a fundamental reality of politics in the right-of-center party that has ruled Japan without interruption since 1955. Winning the Liberal-Democratic leadership is seldom, if ever, a matter of personal popularity. Instead, victory requires the support of powerful backroom leaders who personally control significant factions in the party's parliamentary group. Nakasone's candidacy was supported by the two most prominent factional chieftains in the Diet: Suzuki and former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka, 64, who retains his influence in the L.D.P. despite the fact that he faces a court verdict next year on charges...
...also have been the first city in the Near East to supplant bartering with use of gold and silver as currency. The complex government was headed by a king, Malik(u), elected peaceably to a seven-year term. A watchdog senate, the wealthy Ab-bu or "elders," wielded backroom power...
...court this October, but community groups opposed to the plant have not been mollified. The plant has cleared many hurdles, but not without stepping on what protestors consider some tenuous turf. They question the legal rationale behind the recent victories and trace the facility's newly-found success to backroom powerbroking...
...business. Dole ran down the items that must be decided: size of the overall revenue cut, number of years over which the cuts should be spread, proposals for more rapid depreciation of plant and equipment for business, reduction of the "marriage penalty" against working couples. Long, a master of backroom consensus on tax bills, noted that there was already a general agreement on many of these items in the Senate committee. "Bob Dole and I are on the same track," he said to the House pair. Then he turned to Dole and said: "You and Danny ought to get together...
...recent years, the backroom jockeys' influence has receded substantially. Now, the horses don't even train for the quadrennial summer races--after all, they only have to trot a few perfunctory laps...