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The baroness described the court ruling as "nothing less than an establishment win for the government in a case that was too big to lose".

But her approach – associating so closely with the animals she studied, naming them and even referring to them as "my friends" - made her unpopular with the male-dominated scientific establishment.

Mone described the court ruling as "nothing less than an establishment win for the government in a case that was too big to lose".

Or a disgruntled independent when he assails a Democratic establishment that’s become, as he sees it, “a club of insiders who take care of each other” and mostly go along to get along.

The main works on the New York-centric program were by two great 20th century composers, Bartók and Charles Ives, who were treated as outsiders by the city’s musical establishments during their lifetimes.