Word: loyalism
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...Iraq intelligence. When chief of staff Andrew Card was looking for a replacement for ousted Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, Card phoned one of the wise men of business and politics to consult. After discussing the merits of several candidates for a short time, Card interjected. "But are they loyal?" he asked. "That's the most important thing." Says the called consultant: "Loyalty seemed to be all they care about." Bush would say the only way to have a truly free debate internally is if all involved are confident they won't read about who won and who lost...
...joined Guinness 25 years ago as a carpenter's assistant. To monitor how people adapted, Guinness hired consultant Paul Williams, who has also worked for Microsoft and BP. Two days a week, Williams is free to wander the brewery, posing provocative questions. When a brewer says that he feels loyal to Guinness, for example, Williams asks whether he would still feel loyal if the company cut his salary in half - in order to challenge staff allegiances to that old idea of Guinness as a paternalistic employer. At first, "they were prouder about the product than about their performance," Williams says...
...underline that this is a comedy of duplicity. As Frayn?s classic farce ?Noises Off? showed the performance of a play on stage, then from backstage, ?Democracy? reveals the public face of Brandt?s Ostpolitik and the inner scheming of Guillaume and the other top staffers, who are loyal but scarcely more likable. The you-break-my-neck-I?ll-break-yours pace stirs suspicions that the play is more bustling than profound. I prefer Alan Bennett?s two one-acters, ?An Englishman Abroad? (about Brit superspy Guy Burgess, who fled to Moscow after passing secrets to the Reds...
...fighting in Najaf. But the fear of alienating peaceful Shi'ites forced the Allawi government to hold back from its threats to launch a decisive strike against rebels inside the shrine. And so late last week, even as al-Sadr claimed to be handing over the site to officials loyal to Grand Ayatullah Ali Husaini Sistani, al-Sadr's shock troops remained armed and in control of the streets surrounding...
Bush correctly calculated that Democrats would be reluctant to risk a backlash from voters by blocking a nominee while the nation was under threat. Kerry signaled that he wouldn't fight the nomination, and though Senate Democrats are still worried that Goss is too loyal to his political masters and too close to his old agency to reform it, for now they don't plan to hold up his appointment. Instead, they say they'll use Goss's confirmation hearing in early September to air complaints about CIA failures--and possibly to grill Goss on his recent proposal to lift...