Summit Information Systems was willing, but only after Kroll spent six months entreating its 200-plus banking clients to put in the good word for him.

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It is not a word for a dramatic shift from an absolute (though relatively gentle) monarchy with a weak consultative assembly to a constitutionally limited monarchy with a strong, sovereign parliament and an elected president who can remove executive branch officials without entreating the king.

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