Word: old-boy
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...think it will be possible to develop some old-boy, old-girl networks between the graduate schools and the major corporations," May says
Young Colin Saville does well in his "eleven-plus" exam, wins the scholarship to a prestigious grammar school and is considered to be university material. The time is just after World War II, and the English educational system has begun its shift from the old-boy network to the creation of a meritocracy. Like D.H. Lawrence's characters in Sons and Lovers, Colin's father is abraded by a life in the coal pits, and his mother by poverty and sickness, but there seems to be no limit to what the boy can achieve...
Bureaucratic Wallflower. Part of the animosity directed at Rivlin stems from the restraints placed on the old-boy network of committee chairmen by the creation of the CBO. In addition, politicians, in or out of Congress, do not take kindly to criticism, no matter how justified...
...affair and the other failures are raising severe questions about the efficiency, as well as the ethics of Swiss banking. Even some Swiss financiers are charging that Swiss bankers are vastly overrated and that only the constantly climbing Swiss franc makes them appear proficient. "Swiss banking relies on an old-boy network," says a Geneva banker. "That is why there are people in positions of responsibility here who could never get a job in a bank in Germany, Belgium or The Netherlands...
...public life. Carter has always been more technocrat than pol, a man who stayed out of back rooms, who said no to special interests, who reached a point when he did not want to argue longer. During the campaign these traits were billed as desirable contrasts to the old-boy Washington clubhouse atmosphere. But back then he never...