The practice of "parachuting" political figures to the top of important firms is thriving, despite hopes that it was on the way out.
The monitoring group blamed increased censorship and the practice of parachuting in presidential cronies to run the country's most prominent media outlets.
It may not be very "Star Trek" to see astronauts parachuting back to earth in a cramped capsule, but it is much cheaper.
Parachuting a big chunk of donor cash into a poor country leads to reasonably predictable behaviour including officials trying to steal the lot.Projects do not usually fail because the technology or economics is wrong, but because planners have not structured incentives and safeguards to fit the environment.
On June 4th, Mr Abe bowed to pressure from LDP members to bring forward a bill aimed at preventing ministries from parachuting retiring bureaucrats into industries they previously regulated.Nobuteru Ishihara, the acting secretary-general of the LDP, says Mr Abe, a close friend, is fighting for his survival.
Whereas Fidesz ran an old-fashioned air war, parachuting in party leaders, including Mr Orban, only for brief visits, Jobbik ran a well co-ordinated ground war, flooding the constituency with MPs and activists, targeting villages and focusing on local concerns such as Tapolca's hospital.In this section How Vladimir Putin tries to stay strong The numbers nightmare Is Tröglitz everywhere?
One useful outcome of the current row has been the promise from Mr Santer of new staff rules meant to stop commissioners from parachuting family and favourites into EU jobs.But governments also know the commission does a fairly good job with its limited resources.
He took care of his men, to the point of parachuting first from aircraft in case the wind was dangerous.
He likes hang-gliding, parachuting, 100-mile races.
The Tories' constituency associations are fiercely independent; Labour bosses have a much easier time "parachuting" favourites into plum seats.
As is well known to participants in the sport of Base Jumping (a mind-bogglingly dangerous activity that involves parachuting from static objects), parachutes have problems when launched from tall buildings.
