Word: backrooms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...assembly gets set to choose a new president on Wednesday, tension over the outcome is increasing, with the legislative building surrounded by angry demonstrators. "None of the three front-runners commands a majority in the assembly, and that has laid the process open to precisely the kind of Byzantine backroom deal-making that has enraged the protestors outside," says TIME Asia reporter Nisid Hajari...
...Five years, all that glam, and Mercury nomination rumors later, they can still raise the roof in a backroom. Which is what they like best...
...streets." With the country due to seat its new parliament next week and begin the process of choosing a new president, Indonesia?s short-term political future remains volatile and unpredictable. But the military will do its best to ensure that the furious jockeying for power is settled by backroom cabals rather than on the streets...
Exciting, even revolutionary as B2B promises to be, it will come at a price--one that will be paid largely by the relatively anonymous groups of backroom sales-and-operations personnel who have kept the wheels of commerce humming. If you don't believe it, imagine trying to convince the legions of purchasing-order and sales executives--those who, as part of their current jobs, are wined, dined and bequeathed free tickets to every sporting event imaginable--that the Web is a better way to do business. Efficiency may not sound all that attractive to them. On the flip side...
...news came after the Times obtained some 40 hours of videotape of union meetings, filmed by a Florida company for a documentary on the NFL Players Association that was never completed. Besides providing a rare look into the workings of the elite union ? and such backroom deals as dropping the drug cases ? the tapes give the first public confirmation of something players and owners have privately been saying for years: That alcohol abuse is a far bigger problem than illegal drugs in the league. Union assistant executive director Doug Allen is seen on tape noting that there were "a dozen...