Word: fiefdom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ideology of double standards especially evident with the Americans.What they consider unthinkable, not to say criminal, at home is just an innocent prank abroad." Nor does the operation likely come without a Kremlin stamp of approval. The Moscow mayor, while running the Russian capital like a personal fiefdom, also boasts a particularly chummy relationship with President Boris Yeltsin. Says Meier: "It looks like Giuliani got into more than he expected...
...flight down to Palm Beach, Florida, after his 1960 election, John Kennedy mused that he wished he could make Bundy his Secretary of State, but he was "too young." Instead he became National Security Adviser, transforming the job into the powerful fiefdom it has been ever since. It was a heady time as Bundy, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and others exuberantly conceived limited-war options and counterinsurgency theories. Their intellectual firepower dazzled much of Washington, though Sam Rayburn did grumble to an awed Lyndon Johnson, "I'd feel a whole lot better about them if one of them had just...
...whose support he is counting on: steelworkers, autoworkers, government workers, teamsters, machinists and, most recently, farm workers. His route to this point breaks all convention. Since the confederation known as the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations came together 40 years ago, its presidency has been a fiefdom that had never been challenged. Now, for the first time, an election contest is raging for the job. The outcome, to be decided this Thursday, could help determine whether labor can approach its once formidable clout...
...seems shortsighted. It should realize that the economic factors of a given moment are not important. As long as the ruling political party is made up of people who are looking out for their own wealth and power and who use a government post as a personal fiefdom, it won't matter how much milk the cow produces. If democracy is the best option for the U.S., it also has to be the best option for its neighbors...
...most part, the month-long cease-fire agreed to on June 15 by Bosnia's warring parties held. Among several flare-ups along the front: the area around Bihac, where Bosnian government forces fought a group of Muslim rebels who have declared an independent fiefdom. Meanwhile, Croatian President Franjo Tudjman visited Sarajevo to discuss a newly formed Bosnian federation of Muslims and Croats...