Word: feudal
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...Harvard is an archaic institution that came out in the days of monarchical and colonial America--it has a pseudo-feudal style that is not at all representative of democratization," he explains...
...change is nothing short of astounding. When Commodore Matthew Perry sailed a squadron of U.S. naval ships into Japan's waters in 1853 and demanded an opening of trade, the Japanese reacted swiftly. They cast off 250 years of rigid isolation and rapidly transformed their island nation from a feudal to a modern state. The Japanese again proved chameleon-like following their humiliating surrender at the close of World War II. Under the watchful eye of General Douglas MacArthur, the head of the occupation forces, they abandoned militarism, established their unique brand of capitalism, and quickly turned the country from...
...visitor came first to the enk'ang of Moses' older brother Joseph, who, surrounded by children and dogs and friends, strode out from the boma -- a tall thorn-and-cedar enclosure, the feudal African fortress against lions and leopards -- to meet him. Joseph was smaller and more delicately boned than Moses. He had the fine, intelligent head of a Talmudic scholar, the visitor decided, an Ethiopian head, a fastidious head, given to complex distinctions. Joseph and the visitor set out in the evening light to walk across the hills to Moses' boma. Joseph wore a handsome red blanket hung over...
...Gorbachev)) has not had time to develop the support among mid- and lower-level officials. It's a huge machine, and it's very hard to get a handle on it." Jeremy Azrael of the Rand Corp., a West Coast think tank, says that regional party bosses have become "feudal barons" and that Gorbachev has to gain control over them before he can be master of the national party...
...that determines financial priorities, who consensts, and why? Who decides whether a department has achieved its primary objective of educating its students? Why is there no adequate apparatus for some student input into basic decisions? Why is one of America's leading universities still basically feudal in structure...