Word: establishmentarianization
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...worse things get in Japan, the harder it is for a leader like Koizumi to get anything done. Although he cruised into office 10 months ago as the crusading anti-establishmentarian who would truly reform Japan, the dashing, outspoken Prime Minister with the finely tuned coif is in trouble. When he fired popular Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka last month under pressure from anti-reform conservatives, his approval rating plunged 20% from last year's high of 80%. As confidence in his leadership sagged, the Nikkei stock average hit an 18-year low. "If he wouldn't support...
...this was the same 14-year-old who tagged along with him one Saturday afternoon in 1987 when he met with advisers to talk about a presidential run. As she has done repeatedly, Karenna came to define her father in her own way, a way at odds with his establishmentarian image. The teen decided that Gore and his insurgent bid were of a piece with the defiant punk bands she sneaked out to see. "I felt like we were trying to overthrow the Old Guard," she says...
...Hampshire results are tallied, the Bush message machine will move to South Carolina, where the abortion issue really cuts and the machine hopes to crush McCain. It has a good chance of doing so, even if McCain wins New Hampshire. South Carolina Republicans tend to be more establishmentarian and evangelical than their counterparts in New Hampshire (one-third describe themselves as Christian conservatives). And because of McCain's abortion waffle and campaign-finance advocacy, they regard him as highly suspect. Possibly liberal. And very likely Clintonian...
While students are not unanimous in their praise for Epps, largely because he is perceived to have an "establishmentarian point of view" (Rev. Gomes' term), there is no question that he is a huge presence on this campus, a "symbol of Harvard," as this page called him yesterday...
...Archie was a known quantity," Gomes says. "He was not some obscure person propelled into the limelight...It didn't hurt that he was black, and it didn't hurt that he had an establishmentarian point of view...