Word: authoritarianism
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...those in waiting. Not for the first time, his colleagues put their heads in their hands. His closest adviser was his former chauffeur, with whom he played long games of table tennis. He developed close links with the military and security services. His critics accused him of being authoritarian, a "President with an ax." In another historical irony, he was defeated by a former communist, Aleksander Kwasniewski. Walesa went back to Gdansk, to his villa, his wife Danuta and their eight children. But at 54 he is still young, and he recently announced the formation of his own political party...
...vintage Yeltsin -- impulsive, authoritarian and shamelessly political...
...only U.S. leaders could see themselves as clearly as they purport to see Iraq's Saddam: punitive, authoritarian, armed to the teeth and prone to solve problems with violence. It is hard to say which side is more frightening. SUZY T. KANE Bedford Hills...
...problems Russia faces. Soros, who has amassed a $5 billion personal fortune trading currencies and given $1.5 billion to humanitarian projects worldwide, so far has only vague ideas about who gets the Russia money. One initiative--to "preserve what is good in Russian education" and "reform what was too authoritarian"--appears overly ambitious and may have little effect on the country's vast school system...
...superb piece of place making. When the Epcot-style tram delivers you from the parking garage at the bottom to the plaza at the top of the ridge, you step out into a space that seems both amiable and Utopian, dignified but, despite its acreage of travertine, not authoritarian: a respite from the visual chaos of Los Angeles, but offering the best views a public could have of the city spread below...