Word: network
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These students are proposing structural reforms in the selection of SAC members, which they hope will end years, if not decades, of what they see as, at best, an exclusive governing body which takes for itself special perks and, at worst, a self-perpetuating old boys' network...
...think that my freshman year there still existed a tangible 'old boys network' at the IOP. In fact, as a first-year I initially questioned whether or not the IOP was a place where I wanted to spend a majority of my time, since I particularly did not see many minorities involved there," says McLain, who is black...
Perks and the Old Boys' Network...
...midterm elections, he was seen as an outspoken conservative, not a spokesman for the whole party. Then came the post-Gingrich leadership shuffle. DeLay not only survived, he prospered. Facing no challenge for his job as majority whip, he was able to deploy his vote-counting network (the 64 lawmakers who serve as his assistant whips) behind three of the party's new leaders. One of them was Bob Livingston, who owed him a favor but who also did him one inadvertently by choosing not to step into the impeachment management. DeLay was only too happy to step in himself...
...most large banks and brokerages in the western hemisphere have moved into some form of private banking, with Citibank using its peerless retail network to develop business among local elites around the world. Most of the private-banking departments offer trusts and accounts in Switzerland, the Caymans and other havens with tight bank-secrecy laws. (An ad for Citibank's Monaco private bank touts its "trust companies and private investment companies in the U.S., Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Jersey or Switzerland" that "can give the client confidence that their assets are held...in a way that is both tax-efficient...