Word: cabal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...implications for Halperin are ominous. "Is a small cabal of neoconservatives operating in the fashion of Joe McCarthy going to be allowed to scuttle the nomination of a truly first-rate and honorable candidate?" asks Jeremy Stone, president of the Federation of American scientists. In this case, the answer...
Meanwhile, other council executives left out of the carefully selected Beys/Fine cabal pipe up to complain that they haven't been invited to executive board meetings that Beys and Fine have already held. And it turns out that Beys and Fine, by running the elections when they might run for executive office themselves, have violated a conflict of interest rule that the council passed just last spring...
...once rosy picture for pushing health-care reform through the Congress has turned bleak. House Ways and Means chairman Dan Rostenkowski went so far as to ridicule her nascent plan as the "domestic equivalent of Star Wars." (She still had him over for dinner that night.) A growing cabal of Administration officials has urged the Clintons to delay their health-care plan, arguing that the President can't risk overloading the system by sending both his economic and his health packages to Capitol Hill. But she is undaunted. The past two weeks have been a blur of 16-hour days...
...some monolithic umbrella institution run by an oligarchic cabal, which unilaterally decide all its policies. Rather, AAA is a single organization of 600 students, separate from all the other Asian ethnic groups, who in the interest of expediency entrust a diverse body of 14 students to carry out the 20 or so events AAA holds every year. And in many cases, like the protest during Junior Parents' Weekend, AAA must act quickly and boldly in order to insure that the voices of Asian American students are heard. This is one of the main purposes of having an elected board...
Although he rewarded them with bonuses of up to 20%, it was not enough to keep a cabal of fed-up senior officers from secretly engineering his ouster. While it has become common for rebellious corporate boards to dismiss underachieving CEOs for uneven performance, this may be the first instance of a board's firing a chief executive for erratic behavior...