Word: establishmentism
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Insurance has always prided itself on taking a leadership role on societal issues. In the U.S. the insurance industry pushed for the establishment of official fire departments in the 19th century. More recently, the British insurance industry, as part of its campaign to be able to keep offering flood insurance...
French voters seem ready to find out. Polls show Royal leading the field of prospective candidates for next year's presidential election, which could make her the country's first female head of state. (In May 1991, President François Mitterrand appointed France's first and only woman Prime Minister...
Then came Plan of Attack, Woodward's second Bush book. Published in April 2004, this one was decidedly more nuanced. Like all Woodward products, its tone reflected the moment in time when it was written - in this case, that fuzzy period between Bush celebrating Iraq as a "mission accomplished" and...
By the end of October, insurance executives worldwide were allowing themselves a collective sigh of relief as an unusually uneventful hurricane season was winding down in the Atlantic. And when another superstorm touched off by global warming blew through London and around the world on Oct. 30, they were[an...
The bloggers see themselves as representatives of Democratic Party progressives who long ago soured on Harold Ford Jr.'s ever-more-conservative rhetoric and voting record. Ford's strategy has been to woo middle-of-the-road and conservative voters in Middle and East Tennessee while holding on to party...