Word: dictatorship
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...into the wrong hands and we did not act,” Blair said, then “we might find out too late the potential for destruction.” He pledged his full support for a possible U.S. effort to unseat Saddam Hussein’s bloody dictatorship...
...Party (PSD). Guterres had two years left in his term but felt bound to step down after such a huge slap, the worst part of which was that the Social Democrats captured the City Hall in Lisbon for the first time since the 1974 revolution that ended decades of dictatorship. With general elections on March 17, many Portuguese commentators think Guterres stepped aside just in time for the country to have a chance to avoid becoming the European Union's basket case...
...best seller in France - is still a diverting bagatelle abounding in gentle humor, warm bonhomie and appealing charm. No small triumph for a tale set in that unhappy era not too long ago when "every nook and cranny of the land came under the all-seeing eye of the dictatorship of the proletariat, which had cast its gigantic fine-meshed net over the whole of China...
...When it comes to money, Chinese basketball has hands of stone?a fact many owners and managers blame on the control-happy CBA itself. The league is run as a government sports program. Top officials are Communist Party appointees accustomed to top-down dictatorship?and the league's lack of marketing and promotional expertise shows. At the beginning of the season, CBA officials lost a $4.2 million marquee sponsorship and promotion contract when its would-be partner, Y.C. Advertising, a media company owned by Hong Kong's Tom.com, withdrew only a month before the season was to begin. Motorola stepped...
...also a courageous book. At the outset Goñi, the son of an Argentine ambassador, asserts that Argentina is a morally-blind country with a "fabricated" history that anyone can tailor to their requirements. He compares Perón's corrupt rule with the murderous 1976-83 military dictatorship that did away with 20,000 of its opponents. Both regimes, he argues, existed because Argentines opted for silence in the face of evil. Goñi has laid down a challenge to the "wall of silence" mentality that allowed Argentina's history to be so sordidly stained...