Word: authoritarianism
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...Kremlin emissaries filed onto the stage, the answer was written all over their faces. The normally dour Lukyanov let a grin slip. The balding and bespectacled Yakovlev looked like a schoolboy who had just received straight A's. After praising the plenum as a "major step . . . away from an authoritarian-bureaucr atic model of socialism toward a democratic society that has opted for socialism," Yakovlev was asked how the meeting had affected Gorbachev's position. A smile, then the reply: "Very, very positively...
...movement stays together, it is seen as authoritarian and without diversity," Abernethy says. "Or the notion is that the Africans can never get together...
Fernandez's detractors complain that he has an authoritarian manner and is too chummy with the local teachers union. He has already alienated city bureaucrats by appointing a deputy chancellor critical of the school system and by announcing plans to eliminate some 200 jobs at the board of education's central headquarters. Meanwhile, eyebrows have been raised over his hefty compensation package, which includes a $195,000 salary, free housing and $214,000 in supplemental pension pay. But Fernandez seems impervious to criticism."One thing I will never have is an ulcer," he shrugs. "I get angry and move...
...outcomes were possible, Migranyan suggested: Gorbachev might become more authoritarian, "crushing all obstacles and imposing economic reforms," or a conservative regime might emerge that would jettison him along with his political and social reforms, even while seeking to modernize the economy. With Gorbachev's room for maneuver shrinking, Migranyan said, "maybe we need an authoritarian period of development . . . if democracy prevents market mechanisms from developing...
...Soviets and others to have a little repression on the way to free markets," a process he called "perestroika without glasnost." But Grunwald doubted even that would have the desired result. He pointed out that while some Asian economies -- Taiwan's and South Korea's, for example -- flourished under authoritarian regimes, much of Latin America's had not. Said he: "There must be a degree of democracy and freedom for people to do their best, to take chances...