Word: cabal
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Critics of trial lawyers say Scruggs and a cabal of his colleagues are using litigation to hijack hot-button social issues that should be resolved in Congress and the state legislatures. "Trial lawyers are an unelected fourth branch of government," fumes Walter Olson, an author and trial-lawyer foe. Corporate executives complain that the cost of fighting lawsuits, let alone losing them, drives up prices of products ranging from ladders to automobiles and holds down wages and job creation and profits. Adding to the outrage: many plaintiffs' lawyers are getting very rich. The tobacco-settlement legal fees--to be shared...
...Redmond said she also felt a conservative "cabal" dominated the council. According to Redmond, the chair and vice chair of the Student Affairs Committee (SAC)--John Paul Rollert '00 and Michael D. Shumsky '00--wielded too much influence over Seton and the council...
...public of positions: President of all Russia. He is about to inherit constitutional powers akin to a Czar's in what is called an election but amounts to a coronation. But make no mistake: this was not a fair fight. Putin was handpicked for this handover by a tiny cabal in the Kremlin, little different from the ways of the old Soviet Central Committee. Boris Yeltsin and his cronies needed a successor loyal enough to give them the guarantee they craved of immunity from prosecution and strong enough to make it stick. It could have been anyone. Putin happened...
Although the cabal--which Seton says is now more of a group of friends--also assisted Darling in his campaign...
...cabal remained intact the following year and rallied behind Stewart and her running-mate Samuel C. Cohen '00, both of whom went on to win the election...