Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...party's Central Committee dumped three more hard-liners from the ruling Politburo, the second major leadership reshuffle in three days...
Keverian's move to put pressure on House Democrats comes after sharp criticism of the speaker from both parties. Many lawmakers have attributed the legislature's inaction in response to a $720 million state budget deficit to a lack of leadership and direction from Keverian...
...weeks ago, the House passed a deficit reduction bill estimated at $368 million, which the Senate will consider later this week. Several House members cited Keverian's lack of strong leadership as a major factor in the defeat of one of the bill's provisions, which would have allowed the state to reclaim $46 million in beverage deposits form the soda and beer industry...
Whatever the reason (and now is not the time to explore those reasons) enormous credit must be given to Mikhail Gorbachev and the current leadership of the Soviet Union for helping to bring about an extraordinary, non-violent revolution which is forcing citizens of the Soviet Union to rethink, in almost every way, the basic foundations of their...
...biggest danger to Prague's inflexible leadership is an explicit Soviet disavowal of the 1968 invasion. Amazingly, that might be in the offing. Rude Pravo reported that Prague's chief of ideology, Jan Gojtik, had met with his Soviet opposite number in Moscow. Rude Pravo confirmed that the two men had dealt "with the history of the relations between the Communist parties, including the year 1968" and that "they reached a full identity of views." It has long been the accepted wisdom among Western and Czechoslovak experts that if the legitimacy of the 1968 invasion were ever officially questioned...