Word: fiefdom
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...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...
Currently, many Massachusetts residents gamble at the Foxwoods Casino in nearby Ledyard, Conn. If state residents are going to gamble, we might as well take their dollars for ourselves, rather than letting them enrich Connecticut Gov. Lowell P. Weicker's fiefdom...