Word: fiefdoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like Louis XIV at Versailles, Long wields total power in the United States Senate. For over two decades, this Democrat of the Bourbon South has controlled the Senate Finance Committee like his own fiefdom. He thus personally approves every piece of legislation which touches what Harry Truman called, "the most sensitive nerve in the human body--the pocketbook nerve." Without a doubt, Long's VAT proposal will pinch the money nerves of all Americans...
...mountains of work as dean of the Faculty would still occupy him. As chairman of the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL), he's in touch with students from each House and with freshmen representatives, too. But Rosovsky's attitude towards students participating in his large fiefdom surfaced during the development of the Core. At first, Rosovsky wanted to leave students entirely out of the process that would determine the courses they will have to take for the next decade or two, but scattershot outbreaks of indignation among students convinced him to allow non-voting student members on each...
With his party trailing the Tories by margins of 6% to 21% in the early polls, Callaghan fired the first salvo of the campaign in Glasgow, a traditional Labor fiefdom in Scotland's troubled industrial heartland. Claiming that his Labor government had "directly created and protected" 1.2 million jobs, he declared: "There is not a single part of the United Kingdom that would not suffer from the Conservative policy of cutting the jobs program. They would turn Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and many regions of England into deserts of unemployment...
These happy few share in an unusual private fiefdom called R-Ranch (Get it?-"Our Ranch"), one of three such pioneering parks in the state. The idea is simple: an outdoorsman buys an R-Ranch ownership share that grants him not a piece of the land but a piece of the action: recreational free rein over the whole park area. This makes R-Ranch an almost ideal solution to the problem of wilderness use. The land is kept from subdividers; it is also saved from typical state park despoilment. After all, R-Ranchers are hardly apt to litter their...
...avoid a bidding war with other covetous companies. Hoving, 80, long courted by many other suitors, was willing to sell to Avon not only because the price was ripe?$104 million in all?but also because he was promised that he could continue to run Tiffany as an independent fiefdom. Says Hoving: "Charles Tiffany, who founded the company, ran it until he was 92, so I'm going to try to beat his record and run it until I'm 93, God willing...