Word: backroom
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Public posturing and backroom politicking began within hours after the results were in. The first matter on the agenda when the new Parliament convenes in Strasbourg on July 17 will be the choice of a president. Willy Brandt, who campaigned across the continent for his Socialist colleagues, had been considered the leading contender. In view of the center-right's strong showing, Veil was being touted by supporters as a more fitting choice. Former Belgian Premier Leo Tindemans, who heads the Parliament's powerful Christian Democratic group, meanwhile, was bidding for the informal post of majority leader...
...Carlo's Essex Oil and Rotterdam's Nedol, Vanol, Petrosun and Northeast Allied. There are also specialized commodity trading firms like Marc Rich & Co. Such firms like to keep their dealings-and those of their clients-top secret. At Rich's Park Avenue offices in Manhattan, backroom telephone trading operations are conducted behind locked doors that are electronically controlled by a receptionist at the front desk. Queries to most U.S. trading offices from potential new buyers or sellers are generally met with a surprised "How did you get our name...
...with a vision. But that vision often blinds Brustein to--or offers him an excuse to ignore--the little realities of the day-to-day theater world. Those realities include more democratic scheduling, realistic rehearsal and stage time and, beyond that, simple fair play with the bare minimum of backroom politics...
...King's record and stvle. Following his primary victory last September, Hatch broadened his constituency, and sought to represent a disparate group of voters without resorting to false promises or shady deals. If Massachusetts is to avoid a four year convulsion leading it back to the Stone Age of backroom deals and demagoguery, Frank Hatch must win today...
...hear the soft-spoken judge tell the story, when he became the judge of Gulf County (pop. 11,000) he waded into a backwater Watergate. A land of slash pines, Cyprus swamps and oldtime backroom politics, it has been the fiefdom of U.S. Representative Robert ("He-Coon") Sikes, who last year was stripped of a congressional subcommittee chairmanship because of financial misconduct. Taunton publicly charged that former State Senator George Tapper engaged in an "elaborate, corrupt political scheme" with State Representative William J. ("Billy Joe") Rish, Sikes and others to profit from intricate land deals at the public...