Word: cabal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mayhem was ecumenical. You had your one-world paranoids, who stay up nights fretting that David Rockefeller, the Trilateral Commission and a Wall Street cabal run the world through such shell organizations as the WTO. And you had your apolitical Luddites, who refuse to accept that growth, prosperity and upward living standards always entail some dislocation. A century ago, they tried to destroy the satanic mills of industrializing Europe. Today they want to stop the global redistribution of labor, in which previously starving Third World peasants get their start with low-paying industrial jobs while First World workers shift...
...Plants echoes concerns expressed by Redmond two weeks ago. Redmond described a council "cabal" consisting of council executive board members Michael D. Shumsky '00, John Paul Rollert '00 and Noah Z. Seton...
...council "cabal," comprised of Seton, Rollert and Michael D. Shumsky '00, seems to wield the most influence on the council's executive board...
According to Redmond, while none of the members of the "cabal" are themselves sexist, their close friendship can be offputting to women. She noted that the three of them are all in leadership positions on the council, are all good friends and are all male...
...announces the narrator, George Mason, at the very beginning of the book, "the kind attorneys like to hear and tell." What this means is that readers will be taken behind the scenes as a group of lawyers and law enforcers try to gather evidence that will break up a cabal of corrupt judges in Turow's fictional Kindle County. This sting operation poses dangers for everyone involved, and Turow spares neither his characters nor readers maximum suspense. WHEN Sept...