Word: celling
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...city," says opposition city councilor Jean-Luc Romero. "The moment anyone loses a job, a party worker stops by to offer help, part-time employment or a social subsidy." Among Bobigny's 44,000 residents, the 2,700 Communist activists are organized into 70 neighborhood and factory- based cells. If a family cannot pay the rent in its low-income housing project, the local cell leader will intervene with the authorities. If police show up to evict, cell members have been known to physically block the gendarmes. Naturally, beneficiaries are expected to respond at election time...
...Hall and 11 other communists were indicted under the Smith Act on charges of advocating the violent overthrow of the U.S. government. He jumped bail and fled to Mexico, was captured in a border motel, and spent several years in a maximum security cell at Leavenworth, right beside Machine Gun Kelly. Such exploits built a mythic aura around Hall, who, two years after his release in 1957, became general secretary of a party in turmoil. Gone were the halcyon days of 1932 when a communist candidate for President garnered 102,000 votes. Between McCarthy's witch-hunts and Nikita Khrushchev...
...disappearance of the party and its minions was all the more stunning because it had been so ubiquitous in Soviet life. Its 300,000 apparatchiks, backed by a party-cell structure embracing 15 million rank-and-file members, supervised everything from kindergartens to strategic nuclear rocket forces. Advancement to the upper levels of politics, industry, army and intellectual life was virtually impossible without party membership. The party owned 5,254 administrative buildings, 3,583 newspapers and 23 resorts and sanatoriums. Its cash assets last week were put at about 4.5 billion rubles. But as last week demonstrated, there...
...Bowing to the demands of pro-lifers, the Bush Administration continued a ban on federal funding for fetal-cell transplants, despite the fact that the use of such tissue has shown promising results in treating Parkinson's disease and other disorders. Frustrated U.S. researchers watched helplessly as their European counterparts moved ahead on medical applications of fetal tissue...
...past 20 months, Noriega has been awaiting trial in what has been dubbed the Dictator's Suite, a two-room cell behind rows of barbed wire at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, south of Miami. In accordance with the Geneva Conventions, he is considered a prisoner of war and thus receives 80 Swiss francs (U.S.$50) a month from the U.S. government -- more than enough to pay for a steady supply of his favorite cookies, Oreos. He spends his time studying classified documents, talking on his government-tapped phone and watching Spanish-language soap operas. Like many a cornered scoundrel...