Word: cabal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...meeting of the Security Council, at which Lebed took his seat as secretary for the first time. After talking with Chubais, Yeltsin announced that he was firing Korzhakov, Barsukov and First Deputy Prime Minister Oleg Soskovets, the overseer of the military-industrial complex and reputed godfather of the antireform cabal. Korzhakov and Barsukov, the men who had been working to prevent a putsch, were suddenly ousted themselves. Yeltsin said he was tired of accusations that he allowed the hard-liners to run things, "as if the President were working for them...
...true causes of those enormous ills that now dismay so many Americans: the universal sleaze and 'dumbing down,' the flood-tide of corporate propaganda, the terminal inanity of US politics. These have arisen not from any grand decline in national character nor from the plotting of some Hebrew cabal but from the inevitable toxic influence of those few corporations that have monopolized our culture...
...defensive is that Republicans are trying to roll back a century of social progress. We are not ashamed to defend what we and the vast majority of Americans believe in--student aid, protection of our environment, care for our elders, the social safety net--from attacks by the cabal of right-wing extremists led by Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.). If Democrats fail to stand up for those not at the top, no one will...
Here, Mr. Chung shifts suddenly into an attack on PUCC's membership, motivation and intent. He paints the organization as a cabal of self-righteous radicals determined to impose their agenda on the campus; to complete the model, he suggests that PUCC is driven by a hubristic, "delusional" vision of the council's activist potential. In the same vein, The Crimson's editorial staff suggests that a PUCC victory would mean the politicization of the U.C. grants process, a potential disaster for conservative student groups. If any of this were true, students would have good reason for alarm. Thankfully, however...
Unfortunately, many conspiracy theorists don't have workplaces with which to appreciate this analogy. And anyway, giving far too much credit to one's enemies is a hallmark of the paranoid mind-set. This would explain the theory, in vogue among certain Bill Clinton haters, that a cabal of White House aides murdered Vincent Foster, the President's deputy counsel, and not only managed to make the killing look like a suicide but also persuaded numerous fbi agents and members of the U.S. Park Police to join in on the cover-up-all in all, a nifty feat...