Word: factionalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...move would have been made months earlier had it not been for Ross's illness. One crystallizing factor, apparently, was the death of Borg-Warner chairman James F. Bere, a longtime member of the Time Inc. board who remained a director after the merger. With the so-called Time faction reduced by one, this theory goes, Ross and Levin knew that they could count on support from a majority of the board...
...number of thoughtful observers, both inside and outside the company, feel that Levin will be more able to bridge the two cultures than the reserved Nicholas was. But they doubt that Levin will help Ross complete any takeover. "Levin is not in the Ross faction," says Andrew Heiskell, a former chairman of Time Inc. "He's in the Levin faction." One Time Warner director predicts that under Levin "there's going to be a real effort to have the Time Incers feel they're more important and that they are players...
...Orena's people are getting a bigger percentage than the Persico faction, and the word got back to Carmine," explains a Brooklyn-based investigator. "When the dispute was brought to the other Mafia families, they apparently gave Orena the O.K. to be in charge." That O.K. hasn't sat well with everyone...
...Hampshire, hit harder than most areas by the recession, is an excellent place to make that case -- especially since the state's G.O.P. has a strong right-wing faction that has long distrusted Bush. Both moderate and conservative New Hampshire Republicans, who rescued Bush's faltering nomination campaign in 1988, now feel resentful and abandoned. In that contest Bush vowed not to raise taxes, a pledge he broke in agreeing to the 1990 deficit-reduction deal. Buchanan slams the President on that issue in every speech...
Shushkevich did not leave the party until after the August coup attempt, and he has steered clear of identification with any faction. He has also repeatedly stressed that his republic is unlikely to lead the charge for radical economic or political change. With Belorussia's independence just four months old, Shushkevich's primary concern seems to be to thwart backsliding, while not winding up isolated...