Word: old-boy
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...isn’t the exclusivity or the old-boy culture that makes these clubs the lone locus of organized social life. It’s their mansions...
BUZZ Political analyst Kevin Phillips' attack on the "old-boy network" that created the Bush political "dynasty" was hailed by Beltway Bush bashers...
...Lyndon Johnson scribbled on a memo about the initiative, "Let's stop this now!"--and without much fanfare, it was stopped. The quest to put an American woman in space devolved into bureaucratic infighting and congressional subcommittee meetings, complete with cameos by John Glenn and Scott Carpenter and predictable old-boy jokes about the need for women to populate alien planets. In the end the Soviets would be the first to put a woman in space--in 1963, 20 years before Sally Ride blasted off in Challenger...
...breed of director that just might change corporate governance permanently and for the better. The corporate scandals of the past few years have inspired a flurry of strict new government and industry rules on board composition and responsibility. These rules could do much to dismantle the old-boy, do-little director network--in other words, to make directors work for their money...
...old-boy network with the ex-Taliban also persists. In Peshawar, thousands of empty Pakistani passports were stolen last December, and many are now thought to be in the pockets of Taliban and al-Qaeda fugitives. Several senior Taliban commanders, including former Interior Minister Mullah Abdul Razzak, are living openly in the southern Pakistani border town of Chaman with their wives and families. Western diplomats express frustration over this, but they reckon Pakistan may be saving the ex-Taliban clergymen, who still have backing in southern Afghanistan, as a political option in case the interim Kabul government of Hamid Karzai...