Word: fiefdom
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...government is run, muscling up the executive branch and tearing apart the so-called iron triangle of vested interests?the LDP; their financial and vote-getting supporters in agriculture, construction and other industries; and the bureaucrats. Because the LDP has essentially run Japan as a one-party fiefdom since the mid-1950s, real power broking has gone on inside the party, among rival factions and behind closed doors. "The LDP does its real work in the dark," says Taro Kono, a young LDP Lower House member. Under Koizumi's plan, the factions' grip on power was imperiled. Traditionally, Prime Ministers...
...weariness of war, their need for aid, his respect for international law and his willingness to hunt down the man he was once close to, there was not as much as a murmur. Some would nod, but in the most discrete way. Rais, it was clear, still owns his fiefdom. This man had no need to Shanghai his soldiers. He wrapped up the interview, saying he had to go, "I have a meeting with my commanders...
Each of Harvard’s parts may have its own financial fiefdom, Summers said in his speech, “but all draw on the reservoir of knowledge and tradition that Harvard represents...
Keeping scattered agents in line is all the harder when each field office is its own fiefdom. Individual agents have tremendous autonomy; they depend so much on their secret informants that they resist sharing information up and down the food chain. That need-to-know mentality has suffused the whole bureau; agents investigating Wen Ho Lee didn't even know that he and his wife had been paid FBI informants a few years earlier. During Louis Freeh's eight-year tenure (he is stepping down next month), the bureau was often at war with the Clinton Justice Department, largely over...
...right's fate in Paris, Chirac's personal fiefdom from 1977 until his presidential victory in 1995, owes more to conservative blunders than to Delanoë's prowess on the hustings. Its problems are rooted in Chirac's choice of Jean Tiberi, a loyal but mediocre lieutenant, as his successor in 1995. "It was a terrible mistake," an official of the Gaullist Rally for the Republic (rpr) party now admits. "It became immediately apparent that Tiberi had no breadth, that he was a pathetic puppet who knew nothing about the world. We put Forrest Gump in the mayor's chair...