Word: kingpins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Saddam is the Arab world's newest and most determined strongman, and he is not about to allow himself to be toppled from his pinnacle by simple negligence. His bold designs to supplant the late Shah of Iran as the watchdog and kingpin of the Persian Gulf have made him a force to be reckoned with throughout the region. At times, in fact, his behavior seems oddly reminiscent of the ousted Iranian monarch-his largesse with the nation's new-found oil wealth, for example, and in his touches of self-esteem that some critics say verge...
...faces emerged from the balloting as well; David Sullivan, a young tenant activist trained at Harvard Law School, ran an astonishing second citywide, challenging perennial kingpin Walter J. Sullivan as the city's most popular politician...