Word: roader
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agriculture specialist Viktor Nikonov, 60. Gorbachev's main nemesis, Yegor Ligachev, 68, stays on, but Western diplomats believe it suits the President to have a significant figure to his right as a counterweight to Boris Yeltsin on his left so he can bill himself as a middle-of-the-roader. Gorbachev promoted new KGB chief Vladimir Kryuchkov, 65, and chief economic planner Yuri Maslyukov, 51. While both are considered supporters of perestroika, they are also veteran members of the party apparat, come from the same ideological mold as the men they replaced and give no hint of brilliance...
Revolutionary true believers used to call Deng a "capitalist roader." They were right in their accusation, but he was right in his perception that the Communist road was a dead...
...Nixon appointee and middle-of-the-roader who will be replaced next October...
...even the middle-roader melodies like "Skin Deep" can't conceal the hard edges of old; a slight snarl lurks under Burnel's voice, even at its most unctuous. The eardrum-bursting sarcasm of songs like "Bring on the Nubiles" still lingers in the earlobe-singeing insinuations of bourgeois S&M in Punch & Judy...
Seldom have two captains been such good friends, had so much in common, and yet been so different. Not only are they different in appearance and personality, they also have divergent political leanings. Rippy is a self-styled "middle-of-the-roader," while McNulty says he's "more than a little conservative," calls his co-captain a "bleeding-heart liberal" and declares that "Felix often has to change his shirt, there is so much blood...