Word: fiefdom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Indonesian army officers have treated East Timor its personal fiefdom over 25 years, and they're not about to let go quietly. Although polling day was peaceful for the most part in Monday's U.N. referendum on independence for territory occupied by Indonesia since 1975, a pro-indepence result could see an escalation in the political violence that claimed dozens of lives in the run-up to the vote. "Anti-independence militias armed and supported by members of the Indonesian military have been simply going out and killing people," says TIME correspondent Massimo Calabresi. The militiamen have warned that...
...Gullichsen isn't sweating the competition. Instead he's readying his next company, MetaCorp, due for launch this summer. It will allow customers to license their own offshore companies, complete with online banking, all dispensed via another self-run website based, like Tonic, in Gullichsen's Tonga fiefdom...
...Felix Savon had not already convinced you that a Cuban can throw a punch with the best of them, you must have missed Round 2 of the set-to between the Baltimore Orioles and Fidel Castro's Caribbean fiefdom...
...would be to get settled." Then his Episcopal bishop spotted an ad announcing that the Seamen's Church Institute, which has ministered to ocean mariners for 165 years, was expanding to the nation's towboat fleet. Within months, Wilkinson and his colleague Karen Cox were staring at a pastoral fiefdom encompassing the Ohio River, part of the Cumberland and the Mississippi from Greenville, Miss., up to Lock 27 above St. Louis--1,808 miles as the catfish swims...
Seaboard is a publicly owned company, but in fact it is the fiefdom of a reclusive Boston-area family (more on that later). A sort of mini-conglomerate, Seaboard has interests in hogs, strawberries, chickens, shrimp, salmon, flour and wine. Its operations span four continents and nearly two dozen countries and range from cargo ocean liners to sugarcane. And like other profitable businesses, it collects subsidies--or, more accurately, corporate welfare--from local, state and federal governments. Indeed, officials trip over one another in the rush to extend taxpayer support to Seaboard--from the Federal Government's Overseas Private Investment...