Word: fiefdoms
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Nearly all 560 subjects of the medieval fiefdom of Sark gathered last week around a gnarled oak tree in their parish churchyard to mourn Dame Sibyl Mary Collings Beaumont Hathaway, 21st Seigneur of Sark. She had died suddenly of a heart attack in her palatial home on Sark at the age of 90. During almost five decades of rule over the minuscule (4½ sq. mi.) Channel island, Dame Sibyl had labored to keep the 20th century at bay in what she pridefully called "the last bastion of feudalism in the modern world...
Purchased in 1867 by Crosby S. Noyes, a Star editor, and several friends, and run as a tight family fiefdom ever since, the ailing Star-News badly needs an influx of cash and energy. Once the capital's leading paper, it began slipping behind the aggressive morning Post in both circulation and ad linage in the 1950s. The paper lost an estimated $6 million last year. Circulation jumped in 1972 when the Star bought the Washington Daily News, but only temporarily...
Krock turned the bureau into a fiefdom. He demanded that correspondents develop their own expertise ("You've got to know as much about the subject as the men who make the news") and at the same time defended them against querulous editors in New York. Though he might not agree with one of his reporters' interpretation of a story, he seldom tried to impose his own viewpoint...
...terms with its conflicting yearnings to stay together, despite a sour marriage. The action in the play takes place on an idyllic corporation kibbutz, tucked into the folds of rural Connecticut. The husband and wife team has been selected by Fletcher Hardesty, a stodgy opinionated executive, to run his fiefdom after his retirement. Roger, the husband loves his job, but then he's got all the responsibility. Wife Pat, a talented aggressive careerist who's got the chance to make it big in the women's mag biz, loathes the crystal and china tea service life of a corporation hausfrau...
...Administration can hardly be faulted for trying to contain VA costs, which have increased 100% over the past eight years, largely from the Viet Nam War. The argument, rather, should focus more on priorities. Many veterans charge that the VA has become a bureaucratic fiefdom, intent on protecting and expanding the benefits of its largest and loudest constituency-the veterans of both world wars and Korea. Veterans' lobby groups also tend to favor older men. Lobbying has concentrated on increasing the already staggeringly expensive ($4.3 billion this year) military retirement plans, which benefit career servicemen...