Word: puppeteered
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...McKay asserted that his was the onlycandidacy which offered broad-based experiencecombined with integrity. "I'm neither asingle-issue candidate, nor am I the candidate ifyou want to elect a puppet government," he saidregarding Garza and Gabay respectively...
...part, Kotowski calls Young a "puppet"of a University administration obsessed withcost-cutting. He said that Young has repeatedlytold him "her hands are tied" and that she doesnot control the purse strings...
...Puppet Theater in Nigeria...
...there was no rejoicing in Lagos last week when Babangida announced his retirement from the armed forces and installed a new "interim" government that is plainly intended to serve as his puppet. The transitional government promised to hold another presidential election by the end of next year, but Nigerians dismiss the new businessman-President Ernest Shonekan, one of Babangida's closest cronies, as a front behind whom Babangida will continue to exercise real control...
...restrained. The two entities are ideologically, budgetarily, administratively, functionally and physically different. The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts is for all the visual arts and it often does serve (through the exhibition of student work) the academic department it houses. The center, however, should never be the puppet of its tenant, as it is now, or be forced by any means to submit to its tenant's self-serving needs. For the center's commitment is farther reaching than the gates of Harvard. That both these entities, the center and the department, have long since passed adolescence and grown...