Word: umbrellas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite Miki's image as an honest political maverick, most Japanese cynically believe the question of his tenure as Premier will eventually be decided in the usual L.D.P. manner-by a backroom bargain. In large measure, this is because the party is a diverse umbrella organization including everything from right-wing nationalists to non-Marxist leftists; among its 274 members in the Diet are businessmen dabbling in politics, full-time politicians, a sprinkling of former civil servants and even entertainers. The L.D.P. has roughly half a dozen major factions, and like feudal fiefdoms of old, they are constantly forming...
...Many of these pieces are too obviously exercises, too directed to be more than imperfect realizations of formulas. Traditional modes and media dominate; a painting section hangs in guady grandeur over half a wall, while one of the most outstanding pieces in the show, Sage Sohier's book of umbrella photographs, is locked all-but-invisible in a glass case...
...CFIS is a proposed umbrella organization that would include the Russian Research Center, the Center for International Affairs, the Institute for International Development and the Center for European Studies...
Given this second life, Knapp threw goose eggs into the fifth, at which point, with the Judges having just assumed the lead, the rains came--not hard enough to call off the game, but hard enough to drench the field and everyone else who didn't have an umbrella...
...trio of insiders who run Summa Corp., the umbrella company that controls many of Hughes' properties, had expected to find a will that left all or at least most of his estate to the tax-free Howard Hughes Medical Institute. They also expected to be named trustees of the institute and thus continue running the empire. The three are Frank William Gay, Summa's executive vice president; Nadine Henley, Hughes' longtime administrative assistant and senior vice president; and Chester Davis, an abrasive Wall Street lawyer who is general counsel...