Word: fiefdoms
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...opposition and silence independent media; its hounding of the "oligarch" business tycoons whose control over vast swathes of the economy create a potential alternative power center; and the clumsy brutality of his campaign against Chechen separatism fuel concerns that post-communist Russia is being turned, once again, into a fiefdom worthy of the Czars and the Commissars. And the fact that Putin has eschewed the roll-over-and-beg geopolitics of his predecessor, Boris Yeltsin, in favor of a vigorous nationalist foreign policy that frequently puts Moscow at odds with Washington compounds those concerns...
...They are a self-contained fiefdom and researchers are kind of a nuisance,” he says. “The number of hoops you have to go through to get reimbursed for a taxi is astonishing...
...Waggoner dismissed more conservative estimates. “A typical reaction by the manager of an independent fiefdom always is there aren’t these savings to be obtained,” Waggoner says...
...nothing quite worked. Eventually, after Pforzheimer defeated Adams in a “war” of nutrition, which included a football game, a tug-of-war battle and a musical theater production, Adams agreed to “adopt” Pforzheimer House. Residents of that Quadded fiefdom partake of the joys of Adams dining without having to resort to any subterfuge or indignity. But all other non-Adamsians wishing to enter its veritable cafeteria paradise were subject to the same inconsistently-enforced interhouse dining restrictions that were in place. And there, in 1999, the issue stood...
...displeased—what they get are policies that are still well right of center, just not as crazy. The tribunals, not law courts, are still there to try, and convict, the accused. And even after Democratic scrutiny, Tom Ridge’s new homeland security fiefdom is still decidedly anti-union...