Word: machiavellianism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...assert that the initiative came from army commanders made uneasy by Manigat's campaign to stamp out corruption and contraband, a major source of income for many military men. According to this theory, Namphy was merely a pawn, forced into action by his own men. Others point to a Machiavellian third possibility: that the coup was a brilliantly executed scheme in which the military feigned an internal split to force Manigat to act rashly. The last theory assumes that Namphy and Paul were actually co- conspirators. Farfetched as that may seem, it was striking to see Paul, presumably...
...sometimes Machiavellian atmosphere of official Washington, Powell is the beneficiary of a rare commodity: universal acclaim. "Loyal almost to a fault," says former Under Secretary of Defense Richard DeLauer. "He's just super to have around," gushes another Defense Department aide. "Powell has become quite well known to the President and the chief of staff," says a White House aide. "They like...
Rafi is also a problem because he is an anachronism. His conception of a domestic life for Sammy and Rosie is as out of date as his Machiavellian politics. He does not understand Sammy and Rosie's open marriage anymore than he understands their openly homosexual friends. Sex is inherently political in Sammy and Rosie's circle, and Rafi longs for a bygone world where "a kiss is just a kiss...
...fair in war, and starvation is one of the weapons of war," was vice-chairman of the Nigerian governments's comment on the policy that resulted in the death by starvation of two million people. In The Brutality of Nations, Dan Jacobs steers us away from Chief Awolowo's Machiavellian viewpoint. The more significant and shocking issue raised by the book is identified by its long subtitle: "How, in pursuit of political objectives in the Nigerian Civil War, a number of great and small nations, including Britain and the United States, worked to prevent supplies of food and medicine from...
...Time magazine article earlier this month, Glashow, Higgins Professor of Physics, was quoted defending a book that charged Rubbia with employing Machiavellian tactics in his successful attempt to win the 1984 Nobel Prize in Physics...