Word: fiefdoms
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...limits on the individual Cabinet members' independence, and that the Cabinet as a collective body is not suited to decision making. He must have strong, able people in his Cabinet, who can manage their departments well and give him sound advice. But each department is a separate fiefdom; if there is to be coherence and direction to the Administration's policies, the President has to impose that direction from the top, cutting across the often conflicting interests of the various departments. The President must, of course, consult his Cabinet members, just as he consults the leaders of Congress...
...cheered on as it went buccaneering through the region, buying governmental favors for the sake of more and cheaper bananas. Bananas, in fact, were the raison d'être of Central America in the minds of most Americans, who saw the "banana republics" as a comic-opera fiefdom for U.S. commerce...
...marriage to Michèle-a divorcee whose former father-in-law once tried to overthrow Baby Doc's late father, "Papa Doc" Duvalier-signal a possible new moderation? Probably not. The real significance seemed to be the consolidation of Baby Doc's power within the family fiefdom, in which his mother, Simone, for instance, still holds the title of First Lady of the Republic. In this dynastic system, a princely heir will help ensure perpetual rule...
Like Louis XIV at Versailles, Long wields total power in the United States Senate. For over two decades, this Democrat of the Bourbon South has controlled the Senate Finance Committee like his own fiefdom. He thus personally approves every piece of legislation which touches what Harry Truman called, "the most sensitive nerve in the human body--the pocketbook nerve." Without a doubt, Long's VAT proposal will pinch the money nerves of all Americans...
...mountains of work as dean of the Faculty would still occupy him. As chairman of the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL), he's in touch with students from each House and with freshmen representatives, too. But Rosovsky's attitude towards students participating in his large fiefdom surfaced during the development of the Core. At first, Rosovsky wanted to leave students entirely out of the process that would determine the courses they will have to take for the next decade or two, but scattershot outbreaks of indignation among students convinced him to allow non-voting student members on each...