Word: populistic
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...create more demand," he says, "you should have an impact on price." If 10,000 Little Guys keep collectively offering $14 for IPOs whose syndicates are offering $12, wouldn't IPO candidates start urging their underwriter to give small investors a place at the table? And might not these populist wrinkles--Wit plans to sell similar venture-capital shares in pre-IPO start-ups--affect numerous deals down the line, shifting profits from bankers to entrepreneurs and the masses, perhaps even changing the way whole industries get financed? Might Andy Klein have just sparked a financial revolution...
...with the royals in the phrase people's princess. In the days before the funeral, he spoke out in defense of the royal family, calling criticism of it "unfair." He also worked unobtrusively inside the palace to bolster Charles, consulting several times with him to help devise a more populist event. The Blair forces suggested and implemented the loudspeaker system that allowed people on London's streets to hear the service inside Westminster Abbey. Then, the day after the funeral, the Blairs had lunch with the Queen at Balmoral, and the Prime Minister firmly pronounced that he thought Charles would...
...found wanting. For much of the week, the royal family took a battering from the press and from the people: the proper flags were not flying in the proper places at the proper heights; the royals were not attuned to the desires of the "people" for a suitably populist funeral for the "people's princess"; the brief statement of sorrow issued shortly after the family learned of Diana's death was soon forgotten and, if remembered, deemed inadequate. "What is the nation to make of silence and absence at a time of vocal and visible lamentation?" the London Times wondered...
Based on the 1968 biography by Marshall Frady (who also co-wrote the teleplay), the four-hour political biopic is a dark, powerful study of a populist so desperate not to be a common man that he peddles a racist ideology that, surprisingly, he doesn't even subscribe to. Gary Sinise, in one of his best performances, portrays the four-term Governor and three-time presidential candidate's Faustian descent from liberal to conservative rabble-rouser as a human tragedy. And director John Frankenheimer (The Manchurian Candidate, Birdman of Alcatraz) uses all his old tricks (handheld cameras, black-and-white...
...pants, clutching a slim, four-seat majority that will barely support any ready-made Liberal solution to such nagging problems as Qu?bec separatism, growing unemployment and a sagging national health care system. Taking up the position of chief opposition party is the Alberta-based Reform Party, whose right-wing, populist agenda dominated in the West. That was enough to push the separatist Bloc Qu?becois, the Reform Party's diehard foe, into the number two government heckler slot, further muddying the chances for a national referendum on Qu?bec independence. The Liberals now face a House of Commons sharply divided along regional...