Word: monopolistic
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...fact, this is not aid but a handout of leftovers from the master's table made conditional upon fettering obligations . . . If there had been no Soviet Union, would the monopolist circles and the imperialist states render help to the underdeveloped countries? Of course not. This has never happened before" (animation in the hall, applause...
Later, on the fringe of the hubbub in jubilant Winner Moore's dressing room, bigtime pugilism's Monopolist James D. Norris, boss of the International Boxing Club, held court. He allowed that a heavyweight title match, Moore v. Marciano, this fall was not such a bad idea...
...wielded had begun to worry thoughtful citizens. Some proposed that the government curb "the trusts." Others feared that legislation would exchange one tyranny for a worse. Arthur Twining Hadley, Greek scholar and president of Yale, had a quaint solution. In January 1900, Hadley proposed to deal with the business monopolist by an old Greek remedy-ostracism...
Cried Hadley: "Don't invite [the monopolist] to dinner with you. Don't let him come to your house." This solution was widely ridiculed in the press. Harper's Weekly pointed out that the monopolists could enjoy an active social life merely by inviting one another to dinner. The jokesters would have been surprised by the outcome. Big Businessmen began to feel more & more keenly the reproaches of fellow citizens; they began to worry over something called "bad public relations." By 1922 Hadley was able to say that social pressure rather than law' had changed business...
Fortnight ago, after Mexico's magazine Manama had published a piece calling him a "musical monopolist" who didn't give young musicians a chance, Chávez roared back. Hot-blooded, he called his assailant "a veritable calumniator ... an infantile mind." Then, last week, two out of Mexico City's three leading critics jumped in. One called Chávez "a cacique [a corrupt political boss] who dominates all musical roads." Another came to his defense: "He's still the best...