Word: cronyism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...setting up Atlanta-based subsidiaries. Campbell says he is prepared to use "any means necessary" to protect the program in its current form--not only in the courts but also by picketing the homes of the Southeastern Legal Foundation's supporters and boycotting their companies. As for charges of cronyism, he notes that many of the wealthy black contractors who have contributed to his campaign have also donated to his political foes...
...past, Curtatone has criticized Capuanofor letting cronyism dictate his appointments...
...attitude was to put a Band-Aid on it until the state left, and then it'd go right back to the way it was," she says. The inspector, who has been visiting California nursing homes for years, told TIME her complaints are regularly ignored because of the "cronyism" that exists between the state overseers and nursing-home operators. "Once we write down violations, the nursing homes complain and our superiors keep us from going back or else they dismiss our citations," she says. This has led to "hopelessness" among inspectors like herself, she says...
Unfortunately that admission misses the point, for it is the top-down nature of the Asian model itself that is the real cause of the crisis. This model bred complacency, cronyism and corruption. Isolated from public opinion, just as they insulated bankers and businessmen from market forces, the technocrats ignored the deafening clamor of alarm bells that market forces have been ringing for years. Worse still, because there was no public scrutiny of the iron triangle of bureaucrats, businessmen and bankers, the natural coziness that developed in that clique led inevitably to decisions based on personal relations. At best this...
Bilingualism isn't the only point of conflict. Hispanics in East Palo Alto are using their increasing clout to protest what they say is the schools' overall mediocre performance and the inefficiency of its bureaucracy, as well as alleged instances of cronyism and graft. Parents like Sanchez accuse Knight of stirring up racial resentments among blacks to deflect criticism about her administration. Knight dismisses her critics, saying, "Whenever whites are in charge of Latinos, they don't get the same kind of push that a black superintendent does. People...tend to distrust those who look more like them...