Word: loyalize
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Some systems, which are primarily educational and receive most of their money from state legislatures (North and South Carolina are good examples), will survive federal cuts. So will big-city stations that have large and loyal followings. "We base our success on our viewers," says William McCarter, president of WTTW. But small stations that are much more dependent on money from Washington will be severely hurt by the Reagan slices. "A 25% cut won't put us out of business, but it will seriously cripple us," says St. Clair Adams, general manager of little KEET in Eureka, Calif...
...extreme right, but he could not have taken the Cortes without the Guardia Civil's willingness to follow orders-any orders. As it turned out, that no-questions-asked discipline showed up on both sides of the conflict in Madrid. Outside the parliament, hundreds of Guardias loyal to the government helped arrest their 200 comrades who were in the raiding force, some of whom insisted they had been told that they were going to rescue legislators who had been kidnaped by terrorists...
...autonomy in the Confederate army by focusing on the draftees, men too poor to buy their way out of conscription. Soldiers in the Virginia regiments, suddenly no longer heroes for their land, become prisoners of the Confederate cause. Back home, the Southern women, who began the war as loyal and self-sufficient matriarchs, lose faith and strength. Keneally's heroine succumbs to lust and commits adultry...
...situated where they are presently, who are not prepared to declare their candidacy. By declaring candidacy, a person is saying to the institution where the person is at the moment that he or she is thinking of leaving, which immediately damages the person's position there: "X is not loyal," "X does not think we're good enough...," etc. I have observed a number of instances where superior candidates for positions at some of our most distinguished universities have been forced to withdraw their names because there have been rumors of their candidacy. Once an institution decides to have everything...
...secret from their neighbors, from soldiers and intelligence agents and the foreign press? In part, says Laqueur, with a screen of euphemisms and evasions. Even in Germany, Jews were not executed, they were officially "resettled," "removed," given "special treatment." Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's Minister for Propaganda, told loyal journalists how to respond to investigations of the Final Solution: Cite British atrocities in India...