Word: retainers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...attacks on the former Vice President as a candidate of special interests and party bosses, they say, finally got through to the voters, though in New Hampshire the beneficiary was Hart's campaign rather than theirs. Glenn has organized and filed full delegate slates in all primary states to retain a chance of capitalizing himself, notably in the South, where many voters may find both Mondale and Hart too liberal. But his resources are coming under strain. In order to switch money and effort into the Super Tuesday primaries in Florida, Georgia and Alabama on March 13 and the March...
William Kruskal, dean of social sciences at the University of Chicago, said yesterday that Chicago made several special offers in an attempt to retain Rubin, but to no avail...
Rather, Anderson has managed to maintain her knack for writing clear, simple melodies which retain a haunting resonance. And the African instrumentation, rather than detracting from these melodies, heightens them; Anderson doesn't merely colour the songs with African instruments in order to give them an exotic tinge, rather she blends her elements of rock-influenced minimalism and Third World ethnic music so well that she succeeds in creating what avant-garde trumpet player Jon Hassell dubbed "Fourth World Music" "a primitive/futuristic sound combining features of world ethnic styles with advanced electronic techniques...
That attitude should reassure the Kremlin, for it illustrates that a Soviet youngster can be enthralled with the trappings of Western culture but still retain his deeply nurtured distrust of the U.S. Indeed, the blue jeans and the disco thump probably serve as useful vents for youthful frustrations. The greater threat facing Chernenko is not that the Soviet Union's young people are attracted to other cultures, but that the system does not provide for their multiplying needs and locks them into slots at an early age, breeding apathy and boredom. -By James Kelly...
Andropov's time in power may have been marked by failures at home and abroad, but important, if measured, steps were taken to overhaul and rejuvenate the gerontocratic party machine. Brezhnev holdovers who hoped to retain cherished sinecures at the middle and lower levels of the bureaucracy found their jobs going to younger men. At least 34 of an estimated 150 provincial party posts changed hands during Andropov's 15 months in power. It was the largest turnover of party officials around the country in two decades...