Word: leader
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...House's budget-cutting efforts have disappointed some lawmakers. House Minority Leader Steven D. Pierce (R-Westfield) said new taxes would simply worsen the state's already jittery economy...
...doesn't recognize Moscow's right to rule Estonia," complains Rein Veideman, a leader of the pro-independence Popular Front, "but it also doesn't recognize Tallinn's right...
...regular, inescapable need for new borrowing authority has inspired Democrats and Republicans alike to play dangerous, self-serving games. Hoping to revive Bush's cherished reduction in the capital-gains tax, Senate Republicans considered attaching it to the debt-ceiling legislation. Majority Leader George Mitchell, increasingly playing the role of an unyielding Horatius at the Bridge, blocked them. Democrats similarly toyed with piggybacking onto the debt bill measures that Bush would veto if passed separately. Both sides backed off only when the nation was on the brink of insolvency...
...past decade, Deng Xiaoping shed so many of his titles that Westerners came to refer to him simply as China's leader. Last week he retired from his final official party post -- the chairmanship of the Central Military Commission, the party organ that oversees the armed forces and thus guaranteed him supreme power over the People's Republic. Deng's retirement, announced at the end of a secretive four-day party plenum that imposed a conservative agenda of economic retrenchment on the country, surprised Chinese and Westerners alike. Had Deng conceded political and economic momentum to the conservatives...
Sino-American relations are in the worst condition since before I went to China 17 years ago. One of the major reasons is that Americans and Chinese see the tragic events of June from totally different perspectives. The gap between us is totally unbridgeable. Every Chinese leader I talked to insisted that the suppression of the demonstrations was necessary and justified. They believe the American reaction was an unacceptable intrusion in their internal affairs...