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- noun Alternative spelling of
robber baron .
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Examples
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My campaign is now merging with national outrage over mountaintop removal and with disgust over robber-baron coal industries' "profit before people" practices.
Jeff Biggers: Taking on Big Coal Governors: West Virginia Mountain Party Candidate Inspires the Nation Jeff Biggers 2011
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With our robber-baron bankers, our financial panics, our privileged political elite and our disenfranchised migrant workers, it can feel as if we are living through a new Victorian era; certainly the narrative mode that Trollope established in The Way We Live Now has seen a renaissance in recent years, and specifically in a certain breed of sweeping, often sentimental London-based novel.
The way we live now? Follow the money back to Anthony Trollope… 2012
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It's the international application of the old laissez faire economic ideology of the robber-baron era.
Ian Fletcher: Mitt Romney's Plan to Replace Free Trade Ian Fletcher 2011
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People still have the right to collectively bargain in the Dairy State unless they are those robber-baron teachers.
Preparing to Sacrifice Al Lewis 2011
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It's the international application of the old laissez faire economic ideology of the robber-baron era.
Ian Fletcher: Mitt Romney's Plan to Replace Free Trade Ian Fletcher 2011
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It's the international application of the old laissez faire economic ideology of the robber-baron era.
Ian Fletcher: Mitt Romney's Plan to Replace Free Trade Ian Fletcher 2011
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Most of them have no idea that they are welcoming their robber-baron overlords.
Matthew Yglesias » People Support Mandatory Carbon Emission Reduction Fee; Hate Carbon Tax 2010
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The second failing of "Colossus" is its perpetuation of the robber-baron myth.
An Age of Creative Destruction Amity Shlaes 2010
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In the early 20th century, progressivism arose, in part, as a response to robber-baron capitalism run amok.
From the fringe to centre stage, the Occupiers may yet change US politics | Michael Cohen 2011
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It's the international application of the old laissez faire economic ideology of the robber-baron era.
Ian Fletcher: Mitt Romney's Plan to Replace Free Trade Ian Fletcher 2011
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