Word: bossed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...East European state reject reform and still thrive? Yes, says the doctrinaire regime of East Germany's party boss Erich Honecker. The leadership in Berlin has stuck faithfully to the eternal Communist verities and pulled off a hat trick. Under one of the most authoritarian systems in the Warsaw Pact and with a rigid, centrally planned economy to match, East Germany boasts the most powerful industrial base, the highest standard of living and the most per capita exports to the West of any nation in the East bloc. Declared Honecker, 76, in a speech to party leaders that implicitly rejected...
Alexander N. Yakovlev, said to be Gorbachev's closest adviser, got 59 "no" votes, while the candidacy of Moscow party boss Lev N. Zaikov was rejected by 25 of those voting. Gorbachev installed Zaikov as party boss following the November 1987 sacking of Boris N. Yeltsin...
...remaining members of the 12-man Politburo, Ukrainian party boss Vladimir V. Shcherbitsky and Russian federation president Vitaly I. Vorotnikov are running unopposed in electoral districts. Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze's ministerial post bars him from being a candidate...
...spreading stock-for-influence deal that has already claimed three Cabinet ministers in the government of Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita. Shinto stands accused of taking $70,000 in bribes in the form of stock profits from heavily discounted shares of a Recruit Co. subsidiary. In return, the former NTT boss allegedly helped the fast-growing employment-and-communications firm break into the telecommunications business...
...director turned not only to his staff but also to an extensive network of friends, former aides and political allies, who would sometimes report back through special phone and mail channels that skirted his official staff. A former senior Bush staffer says he was "flabbergasted" to learn that the boss "had his own cutouts, just like a spymaster...