Word: factionally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much power over appointments and programs. The Cabinet does have some restraining power, however; if a majority of its members disagree with an executive decision, it may tell the Graduate Secretary to assemble a judiciary committee. This committee, consisting of Cabinet members, officers, and Faculty, with no faction in majority, is to make the final decision...
Frei's problems had reached almost Andean proportions. During his three years in office, a congressional coalition of Communists, leftists and Socialists had tied up nearly all of his major reform legislation. Then a noisy leftist faction within his own party began joining the opposition in criticizing Frei, and six months ago finally won control of the executive council. At last week's meeting, Frei made a bid to regain control of his party by proposing a bylaw that would give the President the final decision on any policy disagreement between him and the party...
...referred to a small group, consisting of the president and a few associates, as the "Machine." When March--and the annual club elections--neared the Machine's candidate for the coming year, who may have been picked when a freshman as a potential president, was generally opposed by another faction. The Machine almost invariably won, and then was violently opposed for the next year by the losers. The friction helped to animate the club...
...entirely welcome." James W. Vaupel '67, who succeeded McNichol, was one of these. Vaupel's own successor, Stephens, labelled a Machine man by the opposing ticket at last year's election, began his Harvard Republican career as an anti-Machine candidate. Traditionally, YR's stayed with the same faction all the way. The chain had been broken...
...worries come from without. He must also contend with his 40-odd half brothers, all princes, who are maneuvering to place their own man on the throne when Feisal, now approaching 65 and suffering from stomach ulcers, retires or dies. So far, the King has managed to play one faction off against the other. To hold their brotherly love, he also distributes monthly allowances ranging from $8,444 for minor princes to $333,000 for the officially designated crown prince, sees that they get "commissions" on every foreign investment in Saudi Arabia...