Word: citadel
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...city that used to be a citadel of New Dealish plenty, today's rising taxes and costs and reduced municipal services make for an unusual campaign. It has become politic to be probusiness. Though Abe Beame insists that "we've weathered the storm," his own Temporary Commission on City Finances reported last month that the city is still in peril. The commission urged greater austerity and more enticing tax reductions for business, and told the city it must invest whatever funds it can spare in economic development rather than traditional services...
...awed audience in his company's baronial headquarters suite overlooking Manhattan's Central Park, Bluhdorn fearlessly offers his forthright and often funny opinions on such disparate topics as acquisition strategy ("I want to buy things no one else wants"), American businessmen ("They have surrounded themselves in a citadel where everyone else was below them"), ideology ("I am a capitalist and I don't intend to change"), even China ("I think there was maybe something good about Mao when he sent the ministers out to do something in the fields...
...major Catholic schools had parietals anymore, that even Holy Cross had surrendered to co-education, that early-morning chapel had gone the way of all flesh, even at Fordham. In short, all of Ignatius's arguments were bogus--Harvard could not possibly corrupt me any more than the purest citadel of religious learning. Fulton Sheen would have been proud...
...placid blue waters of Lake Geneva, which are normally graced by white sailboats and sleek cruisers, last week floated an ugly sight: the body of an apparent suicide. The corpse was a shocking reminder that Switzerland's banking industry, long famed as a citadel of honesty and stability, is being shaken by scandals...
...typical of contract negotiations that go on in hundreds of plants and offices across the U.S. every year. Except for one thing: this labor showdown happened to take place at the citadel of organized labor in the U.S., AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington, where the management is none other than George Meany-Mr. Union himself...