Word: authoritarianism
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...Sheehy borders on the implausible when she suggests that George Bush submitted to Reagan as his father figure in the same manner as he had submitted to his authoritarian father as a youth or that Gary Hart, whom she compares to Gatsby, is unable to "search out a middle path between Nazarene perfection and Beatty-esque amorality." Too often, Sheehy's ruins a well-written chapter with such pop psychology...
Although the outcome of the vote was never seriously in question, opponents on both the left and the right challenged the ruling party. By denouncing the P.R.I.'s authoritarian ways and its well-established reputation for election fraud, the opposition forced Salinas into a corner. Political commentators warned that the ruling party had to win by a margin large enough to establish Salinas' authority and credibility but not so large as to trigger charges of fraud. As confusion over the vote mounted, it became evident that while the P.R.I. had gained the presidency, the days of one-party rule were...
...very open-minded," Tri-Captain Barb Keffer says. "She listens to her assistants' suggestions and the players' suggestions. She's quite different from many coaches, who tend to be authoritarian...
...Denuar arrives at Saint M's and blackmails Dr. Lyfe into helping with the subterfuge. But a civic-minded faction of the hospital's staff, outraged over the chief of staff's Medicaid scam, learns of Denuar's plan. Led by the hospital's German-accented head nurse, the authoritarian Barb Dwyer (Jon Blackstone), the insurgents resolve to bring down Dr. Lyfe while winning the fortune for themselves. They will share their information with one of the billionaire's daughters in exchange for a share of her inheritance...
...talk of "glasnost" and "perestroika," Gorbachev maintains the iron hand of authoritarian government. The communist regime still does not grant its own citizens freedom of speech, association or the press. Thousands of Soviet citizens continue to fill Russia's jails, mental hospitals and slave labor camps because of their political and religious beliefs...