Word: factionalized
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...full merger seems inevitable given the awkwardness of the present situation, because it would eliminate Radcliffe's powerlessness over the students it admits. But there is a substantial anti-merger faction, consisting of some Radcliffe administrators, alumni and undergraduates. They argue that a full merger would mean a swallowing-up of women in an overwhelmingly male institution; Radcliffe, they say, can continue to function usefully as a women's institution in a male University...
...Surplus Value, Cockburn works more in the traditional conspiracy-writing vein than he does in Harper's, which after all is only just entering the conspiracy field. He talks about "freshly sinister aspects," "business interests," "billion-dollar schemes" and someone "setting faction against faction, lubricating his maneuvers with cash." He deals a lot in interlocking directorates and the like, and doesn't cite many sources, instead either simply stating things as fact or using substantiating phrases like "it is known" or "we are told." Cockburn prefers complex explanations for things where, at first glance, simple ones would just as easily...
...functioned. Its leader, Mogens Glistrup, 48, an iconoclastic Copenhagen millionaire lawyer, who is now under indictment for tax fraud, promised to "fire one bureaucrat every ten minutes for the next three or four years." With 28 of the Folketing's 179 seats, the Progressives became the second largest faction in that body, after the Social Democrats' 46 seats and ahead of the Liberals' 22 seats. Current polls project that the Progressives will retain most of their support...
...task of selecting a new L.D.P. chief was entrusted to one of the party's most respected elders, its crafty Vice President Etsusaburo Shiina, 76. Often working late into the night, Shiina met with faction leaders, party elders and Diet backbenchers. From these conversations, he concluded that the selection of either Fukuda or Ohira might fatally split the L.D.P., ending its 25-year domination of Japanese politics. Shiina was also aware that the public had become seriously disillusioned by factional bickering within the party and by the still unrefuted charges of illicit financial dealings that drove Tanaka from office...
Shiina persuaded faction leaders that the party could only improve its image by reforming its fund raising and internal elections. After gaining this consensus, Shiina called a meeting of the leaders and dropped a bombshell; he announced that he would recommend Miki for the party presidency because he was most qualified to bring about the needed reforms. The astounded politicians took several minutes to recover from their surprise. A nearly speechless Miki signified that he was willing. Fukuda and Ohira, however, insisted that they would first have to consult with members of their factions before consenting. As the news...