Word: machiavellianism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John Connally may have been the President's first choice, Ford had the right look to Nixon. He had never wavered in his loyalty to the President; ever since they had both been junior members of Congress, they had got along. Some cynics felt that the appointment was more Machiavellian than met the eye. With no experience in foreign affairs and no proven capacity for administration, Ford might make people think twice about dumping even a tainted Nixon. Very soon, though, Ford's candor loomed larger than Nixon's experience...
...power broker whose only interest is to fill his own pockets by playing off worker against employer. The engrossing story of Barrera's meteoric rise to power, combined with the suspense of the election campaign, is so well presented that the audience cannot help but be outraged at the machiavellian deceit perpetrated against the unsuspecting workers...
...mistake," says Carl Linden, a leading Soviet affairs expert at George Washington University. "Khrushchev tried to couple relaxation abroad with relaxation at home, while Brezhnev has kept the two separate. He realizes there is a fundamental antagonism between the two spheres. Brezhnev is a hard-nosed, realistic politician, a Machiavellian prince who is acutely aware of the two-sided-ness of Soviet policy...
...frail indeed. It is difficult to support Summerlin's suspicion that Good, who had been his mentor at the University of Minnesota, turned on him and attempted to force him out of S.K.I.; as director of the institute, Good could have got rid of Summerlin without resorting to Machiavellian maneuvering. The director flatly denies that he expressed disappointment at Summerlin's failure to make any new observations in his first six months at S.K.I...
...buckle up the seat belt and sit on it or simply leave the belt unfastened and prevent it from retracting by tying a knot in it. So beginning in January 1974, the U.S. Department of Transportation required that all new cars be equipped with a Machiavellian system that made it nearly impossible to start a car unless the driver 1) sat down in the seat, 2) fastened the seat belt, and 3) turned the ignition key-in the proper sequence...