Word: backrooms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...record will show me not as an old boy, not as a power hungry, politics-driven individual, not as a backroom broker, but as a dedicated, well-intentioned, accessible individual," said Gabay. "I've been above the politics of the council...
What is more, the political engineer behind Hata's insurgency is Ichiro Ozawa, a tough backroom operator who was right-hand man to Shin Kanemaru, the Takeshita faction's Mr. Big until prosecutors caught up with him last March. Kanemaru stands trial next month on charges of failing to pay taxes on the millions he allegedly skimmed off illicit political donations. Largely because of Ozawa's close association with Kanemaru, the national daily Asahi Shimbun is less than impressed with the new group. "They attack the limitations of the L.D.P.," the paper noted last week. "But weren't they...
Regardless of the recruitment strategies and backroom politics involved in the move, Harvard will feel Schama's loss deeply...
What then? Nobody knows. It seems unlikely, though, that the Liberal Democrats can carry on as an unquestioned force, solving all problems with backroom deals among faction leaders. Public revulsion has caused even party stalwarts to start talking about shaking up the corruption-breeding electoral system...
...These people are not operate in a backroom. They have to operate in fishbowl because they have government, alumni, and student's money," he added. "Harvard Management is like the Kingdom of Oz. You don't know what is real and what is unreal...