Word: factionalized
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...Kremlin ways -- have been staging a kind of "creeping coup." They have been worming their way into key positions in President Boris Yeltsin's administration and are beginning to bend policy toward continued, or even increased, state control of the economy. Crows Arkady Volsky, head of the anti-Yeltsin faction: "The policies of the reformist government are on the brink of collapse...
...Communist Party under Mikhail Gorbachev. His Industrialists' Union claims to represent 70% of the country's state-enterprise managers. In June it joined forces with two other parties, one headed by Yeltsin's Vice President, Alexander Rutskoi, to form Civic Union, which is probably the best- organized political faction in the country. Yeltsin, zigzagging between conservatives and reformers in the same manner he denounced when Gorbachev was doing it, has named conservatives to three of Russia's eight deputy premierships, and installed Viktor Gerashchenko, who once ran the Soviet Gosbank, as head of the new Russian central bank...
Many Garden Street residents say they are still "feeling things out." And there is a small but growing faction of Garden St. residents quietly growing accustomed to the advantages of these unusual first-year digs...
...reflect the Jewish situation in the second century before Christ. Eisenman contends that the later Qumran scrolls were written by a messianic movement that blended into early Christianity. He thinks the teacher was James, the New Testament "brother of Jesus" and martyred leader of the Jerusalem church. James' Qumran faction, says Eisenman, was "aggressive, apocalyptic, nationalist, messianic and violent. Very violent." This wing bitterly opposed the Apostle Paul and his Hellenized movement, which rejected Jewish law and was "otherworldly, cosmopolitan, forgiving...
Opposition to the bill came form the council's Independent faction...