Word: fiefdoms
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...power themselves, failed and then had to strike a deal with Aquino to save their own skins. Second, Enrile was ousted in the recent cabinet shake-up because of his dealings with Communists, for whom he had arranged arms shipments and whom he occasionally hired to protect his private fiefdom in the Philippine countryside...
...WEATHER may be the same across the river in Boston, but the political climate sure is different. Boston University President John Silber has been treating his university as his personal fiefdom, making authoritarian decisions with little regard for the concerns of students or faculty...
...ages and are rarely photographed together. Their rapid-fire conversations in Farsi and French often befuddle English-speaking business peers. But from behind that fog, the four Iranian natives have created one of Canada's biggest and most spectacular real estate baronies and are quickly expanding their razzle-dazzle fiefdom southward. Before long, U.S. consumers will get a full exposure to the revolutionary marketing flair of the Ghermezians, who have combined a Disney-style entertainment vision with their own shrewd merchandising sense to produce the latest in suburban shopping temples, the megamall...
President Kennedy referred to Harriman as a "separate sovereignty," and in truth he operated as a kind of independent fiefdom, communicating with other sovereigns on his own terms. He acquired friendships with powerful world leaders the way other men collect stamps...
Government officials fear the First Lady because her power rivals, or perhaps exceeds, her husband's. While Jean-Claude sometimes dozes through Cabinet meetings, his wife scolds ministers. The birth of her son, Francois Nicolas, in 1983 provided an heir apparent to the Duvalier fiefdom...