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...this insensitivity--not the ignorance of rural voters--that makes the rural South a Republican electoral fiefdom...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Liberals Need Hank Williams, Jr. | 11/1/1989 | See Source »

...reason and skepticism in response to the actions of Harvard's administration. Harvard may well choose to ignore the objections of those outside its walls, but it is still important for the University to realize that it has not been granted what it dreams of: namely, its own independent fiefdom on the Charles...

Author: By Daniel B. Baer, | Title: Registering Concern for Our City | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

...engineered Vuitton's purchase of Veuve Clicquot champagne and Givenchy perfumes in March 1987, and last June agreed to acquire Givenchy fashions this fall. From the start, Chevalier and Racamier had trouble accepting the notion of a true merger of their companies. Each man continued to maintain a personal fiefdom, with separate corporate staffs, public relations departments and financial advisers. Then, last May, heavy trading in Moet Vuitton shares on the Paris Bourse signaled that the company would be vulnerable to a takeover attempt. Chevalier responded to the threat by calling on a friend, Anthony Tennant, president of Guinness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do Champagne and Luggage Mix? | 8/22/1988 | See Source »

...feudal baron and his Costa Rican wife Margarita ride out on horseback to check on the 100 workers in their employ. El Patron also enjoys climbing into his blue-and-white Cessna and taking off from one of his half-a-dozen or more airstrips to survey his fiefdom from a God's-eye view...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Misadventures of el Patron | 11/16/1987 | See Source »

Agrokomerc, like most industrial enterprises in Yugoslavia, was in effect the personal fiefdom of the local Communist Party chief. In this case the boss was Fikret Abdic, 48, one of the most influential figures in the northwestern republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina, and the firm's chief executive since 1967. Stout and graying, Abdic ruled Agrokomerc in imperial style, often issuing $ directives from a villa on the Adriatic coast, to which he commuted, attended by secretaries and bodyguards, in a customized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yugoslavia All the Party Chief's Men | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

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