Mr Bloomberg's idea was fought hardest by the barons who run the current primary system, particularly the trade unions.
Now the barons of the web are UPRISING and taking the net dark.
He was born a patrician, but became the savior of working people with his New Deal and combative attitude toward the barons of business.
Am I to believe that the barons of Wall Street, with their extensive risk-analysis algorithms, were unprepared for such a comparatively small rise in defaults?
With these measures the government was able to break the drug-terrorism alliance by offering the barons protection so they would stop providing the terrorists with resources.
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An agreement between King John and the barons of England, it was seen at the time as the solution to a political crisis in medieval England.
The treaty marked peace between King John and the barons, who were in revolt against him, and set out the principles of freedom under the law.
The inscription covers the four surviving copies of the version of Magna Carta forced on King John by the Barons of England at Runnymede in June 1215.
But for all his passionate logic Mr Powell was unable in the 1960s to persuade the barons of the Conservative Party to abandon the Keynesian policies of the post-war years.
Labour's National Policy Forum is due to meet later this month to consider ideas that will end up in the election manifesto, and the barons have already begun to flex their muscles.
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Throughout the Middle Ages, from the barons forcing King John to sign the Magna Carta, to the Wars of the Roses, rebellion was a game played almost exclusively by the rich and powerful.
But most everyone else from the barons of family-owned businesses to doctors, lawyers and small traders operate in largely cash economies that enable them, if they want, to hide most of their income.
At the end of the 19th century, inspired dealers realised that there was a great deal of art in Europe and a great deal of money in America, and the marriage between the barons of capitalism and the market for Old Masters was consummated.
Today the 1995 winner of the coveted "Horatius at the Bridge" award will go head-to-head with the combined forces of the U.S. State Department, the Israeli government, the American Jewish lobby and the barons of Congress determined to ensure that half-a-billion tax-dollars continues to flow to Yasser Arafat.
The sugar barons accused the bishop of being a traitor to his class: after all, his parents had themselves been landowners in Negros.
The nearest parallel is with Teddy Roosevelt, who sought to reform the institutions of government at the turn of the century, taking on both the robber barons and the trade unions in the process.
Cameron's critics will say that the answer is simple: he has chosen to side with the press barons - the Murdochs, Barclays, Rothermeres and co - and to ignore the victims of press hacking and intrusion - the Dowlers and the McCanns.
And while no mind-boggling fortunes like those of Rockefeller and Carnegie were created by this second-tier (those levels would not be reached again until the Bill Gates era), the wealth that was created was nothing to sneeze at (and was much larger, in aggregate, than the wealth created for and by the Robber Barons in the nineteenth century).
At that time, the old barons still dominated the government, the Prime Minister a huge feudal landowner.
The buyout barons wrote down the value of their assets significantly and saw some of their desperate investors unload slices of their funds for as low as 40 cents on the dollar.
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The Robber Barons slowly withdrew from the scene to enjoy their great fortunes and redeem their tarnished images with good works.
The buyout barons got good news this week, when the Fed relaxed its rules on their ownership of banks.
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To the Republican barons who say McCain is out to destroy the G.
The drugs barons have used legal jiggery-pokery to mask the ownership of assets.
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He rode out from the castle for Windsor on 10 June 1215, meeting baronial leaders in Runnymede and probably affixing his seal to the Articles of Barons on the same day.
The great press barons of the early 20th century understood the deeper need, and offered up real stories that they often paid for or manufactured in order to hook their readers.
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On the other side stand the lesson of history (even the robber barons' generosity did not avert a backlash) and the fact that few of the new rich seem to be aware that they are doing anything questionable at all.
The buyout barons held themselves out to be environmental saviors by magnanimously cutting the building plans back to 3.
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