Word: cabalism
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...Republican has no brain. I have no quarrel with the second half of that statement (although I wish people would attain political enlightenment at a younger age). The first bit bothers me, though. It’s a perfect example of the false perception that Republicans are a cabal of heartless millionaires who don’t give a damn about anything but their bank accounts...
...will show that it isn’t a large, impersonal, autocratic corporation. Instead, it will prove itself an institution that responds to democratic forces and is able to change with the times. Having responded to the protest, no one will be able to argue rationally that a small cabal controls Harvard. Even more importantly, the University will have handled a very difficult situation with dignity and security...
...Expedia and Travelocity fought Orbitz with all the might of their own corporate parents - Microsoft and bookings giant Sabre, respectively - and not just because it's a bit troubling, competition-wise, for a cabal of the Big Five airlines to be cooperatively selling their own version of "competitive fares." It's because Expedia and Travelocity are members of capitalism's longest-standing endangered species: the middleman. They currently charge the airlines a $15 fee for every round-trip ticket, a cost the airlines say - and you can probably believe them - is ultimately passed on to the consumer...
...Carbon dioxide emissions. Bankruptcy laws. Drilling in Alaska. And much more to come. Remember when Ralph Nader retailed the conceit that there was no difference between Gore and Bush, between the corrupted Democratic apparat and the corrupted Republican cabal? Maybe so. But the Red nation and the Blue nation do have basic differences with one another, and their different views of the world (of the distribution of money and the role of government, above all) are about to collide, this time not just in campaign rhetoric, as before, but in the real life of the nation, in real policy changes...
...Arroyo realizes she has to accommodate her most influential People Power partners?not the eponymous people, but the cabal of generals who hoisted her to power. She moved swiftly to cement their support, shrewdly naming former President Fidel V. Ramos Special Ambassador of Goodwill, an anemic-sounding title for what could be a very powerful role. (Ramos is a former armed forces chief of staff, and during his six-year term as president there were no coup attempts.) Then, on her first day in office, Arroyo gave some of the juiciest government jobs to military...