Word: loyalism
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Yeltsin had become suspicious of Chernomyrdin, the most loyal and humble of ministers since 1992, and that sealed his departure. But the Prime Minister had also made powerful enemies recently among some of the ever plotting oligarchs of Moscow's financial world. These powerful capitalists, who have considerable influence with the Family, suspected that Chernomyrdin had begun to favor their rival, Vladimir Potanin of the Oneksim banking group, in deals involving state assets...
...longtime and loyal baseball fan that I write you to express my anger at the recent caption above a photograph of Ted Williams and Wade Boggs. The caption read "Hit 'em where they ain't." This phrase is attributable to Pee Wee Reese, a slap-hitting shortstop for the Brooklyn Dodgers in the '40s and '50s, and has absolutely no relevance to Ted Williams...
Loyalty. It's something we all know a good deal about, even if we don't always realize its complexity. We are loyal to family, old friends, roommates and blockmates, our school, even to our baseball team. Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s essay, "The End of Loyalty" which appeared in the March 9 issue of The New Yorker laid out a current philosophical debate: where does loyalty come from, and do we care about its (apparent) demise...
...creaky stairs in Cambridge and Charlestown tenements to meet voters. Powers was behind the scenes for every campaign thereafter. In turn, Powers credited Kennedy with taking a poor newsboy and bringing him into politics. In the 35 years after the death of his boss and friend, Powers remained unfailingly loyal. He never revealed what indiscretions he might have witnessed or secrets he might have known. For him, the campaign never ended. He introduced himself enthusiastically to every volunteer at the library, never forgot a face and always ended conversations with, "Thanks for all you're doing...
...Stephanopoulos calmly but urgently persuaded the caller that the allegation would not hold up in public and that coming forward was not worth the certain resultant embarrassment of the accuser. At that moment, it seemed, the full weight of the election's outcome was on the shoulders of a loyal campaign strategist, trying to quash yet one more rumor in the hours before the polls opened. Stephanopoulos today is an analyst at ABC, the first in Clinton's circle (past or present) to suggest that the President's alleged actions might call for impeachment. Such an apparent about-face, from...