Word: cronyism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long been a coddled prop of the Marcos regime, has alienated millions of Filipinos from the government. Above all, there is a widespread sense that Marcos himself, a charismatic popular hero when he was elected President 14 years ago, has become the symbol of a plutocracy characterized by cronyism and corruption...
...says New Jersey Republican Congresswoman Millicent Fen wick, "there's hardly ever a woman inside." As Susan and Martin Tolchin wrote in their book Clout?Womanpower and Politics, "The smoke-filled rooms, bour-bon-and-branch-water rites and all-night poker games exclude women from the fellowship and cronyism that seal the bonds of power." Says former New York Congresswoman Bella Abzug...
When Atlanta's first black mayor, Maynard Jackson, appointed his Morehouse College roommate, A. Reginald Eaves, as the city's first black public safety commissioner in 1974, white critics were quick to charge cronyism. Eaves, a lawyer, didn't make matters easier by hiring a drug addict as his secretary, ordering an $800 love seat for his office and a luxury car for his travels around the city. But Eaves also proved a highly effective and popular official, cutting violent personal crimes by 10% and drastically curbing cases of police brutality...
...Hoover built and ran for 48 years with a handful of longtime aides. New revelations about the director's imperial peccadilloes have emerged regularly since his death in 1972. Last week the Justice Department released a report that added more detail to the picture of petty privilege and cronyism at the FBI's top level during the Hoover reign...
Each of the reforms is, to a degree, a step away from the complex hierarchical structure that Gorski established, and which critics have accused of promoting cronyism among high-level supervisors and officers eager for promotion...