Word: opportunist
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...both parties (TNR. Jan. 28), attacks Brown for his vagueness on the issues and his lack of commitment to serious reform. Arguing that Brown's nonideological politics are "abstract, stylishly popular and perhaps personally gratifying, but ultimately barren regarding authentic change in government," Morris condemns Brown as a glib opportunist, if not an outright demagogue...
...married Aristotle Onassis in 1968. In exchange, Jackie, then 39, relinquished all future claims to the fabulous estate of the husband 23 years older than she. A troublesome stepdaughter changed all that. Christina Onassis had opposed the marriage in the first place, friends say, and called Jackie "an opportunist." By the time her father died, her feelings were such that she stopped the funeral motorcade and changed cars to avoid riding with Jackie. When the estate was settled, Christina wound up with a big chunk of it and Jackie received $250,000 a year (including...
More important, Arab Leader Holm denounces the mission of both men-the soldier as well as the archaeologist-as "a rape of our heritage." But nobody pays much attention to what Holm says after he emerges as an opportunist who is only using the colonialist issue to unite the desert tribes in his own drive for power. This is a pity. In view of some of the tacky beach-front resorts that have since been built with foreign money along the Moroccan coast, one cannot help thinking that the fellow really had a point there...
...were actively and directly associated with every decision." Then, rising from a sickbed, she summoned her Cabinet and other party leaders and extracted from each of them a signed statement of loyalty to herself and a condemnation of Ram. Later, as her anger grew, she denounced Ram as an opportunist and a turncoat, and charged that he was to blame for a recent rise in food prices. "Now that I am not in government," replied Ram sarcastically, "I suppose prices will start going down...
Chirac's political turnabouts-first against Jacques Chaban-Delmas, the Gaullist candidate in 1974, then against President Valery Giscard d'Estaing-have earned him a reputation as an opportunist. Chaban still privately refers to him as a "traitor." Others have called him "Jacques the Knife," and some cynical members of Giscard's Independent Republicans characterized the dramatic rally at which he launched his renamed party as "smacking of Nuremberg." Those who know Chirac well-including foreign diplomats-are positive he is no "closet fascist," though he is staunchly conservative. He is against nationalization and NATO, for free...