However, Alfred Schnittke came to find the nationalism and philistinism of Soviet apparatchiks offensive.
The danger to order in the former internal empire comes from entrenched apparatchiks seducing the troubled military.
Even at the height of his prestige he still nervously auditioned piano reductions of scores before musical apparatchiks.
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The more intelligent Soviet apparatchiks had grasped that the economic and social system of the USSR was crumbling.
Scores of independents expressed interest in running, but only four were allowed to contest against 155 party apparatchiks.
Saddam's long-cowed officer corps and intelligence apparatchiks would rise up and destroy him.
Both are longtime party apparatchiks and, like Ms Royal, graduates of the Ecole Nationale d'Administration, France's elite civil-service college.
The answer, by implication, is no: in private, apparatchiks say their language was actually less strident than on previous occasions.
During Socialist rule, when party apparatchiks enriched themselves, often at public expense, the eastern half of the country fell behind.
Old communist apparatchiks-turned-tycoons, such as Russia's envoy for Kosovo, Viktor Chernomyrdin, are the sort of people he feels comfortable with.
Their collective judgment will almost always be better than that of ambitious and self-interested politicians and apparatchiks who control government.
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Like Mr Giuliani eight years ago, he is a Republican, with few political debts to the Democrat apparatchiks in City Hall.
Under present circumstances, how could we be sure that Western food would not be diverted to feed Soviet apparatchiks or soldiers?
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Many Federal Reserve managers and apparatchiks believe prosperity is synonymous with inflation.
Although mere apparatchiks, their firing was politically more important than Mr Davis's.
But in practice it could give spooks and security-service apparatchiks free rein.
They have purged members from committees and elevated the apparatchiks and collaborators.
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China faces immense economic challenges, from local apparatchiks who shake down or inhibit local entrepreneurs to state-owned companies that are hemorrhaging red ink.
It is no good kicking out dictators or communist apparatchiks merely to replace them with corrupt capitalists who offer voters no real choice.
The old Soviet Union was notorious for its special stores that were off-limits to ordinary citizens, catering only to government apparatchiks and foreigners.
Obama administration officials, liberal pundits and Democratic apparatchiks this past week have launched a coordinated attack designed to weaken support for conservative Super PACs.
This is the most important election in a generation (or is that millennium?), GOP apparatchiks proclaim, so any vote for anyone else is wasted.
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It profits in part from unity's losers, not so much the jobless as those apparatchiks who lost status when the Berlin Wall came down.
But if Mr Assad junior ever comes to power, he might find the greatest threat to his rule coming not from disgruntled apparatchiks, but from Syria's broken-down economy.
Since then little has changed among the apparatchiks and leftists.
China's challenges will grow as its economy expands, particularly in regard to developing an environment in which entrepreneurs can flourish without landing in the crosshairs of local party apparatchiks.
Hurricanes aside, one big problem in Florida (and elsewhere) is that state regulators lord over insurers like Soviet apparatchiks, setting premiums by fiat rather than letting market forces do it.
Like Fingar, and many other State Department apparatchiks, they shared an unconcealed hostility towards Bush policies and a "see-no-evil" attitude towards proliferators that should have disqualified them from such appointments.
Yet that is precisely what holdovers from the Clinton administration and career arms control apparatchiks evidently have in mind and will undertake to do if left to their own devices.
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It was only after Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union's new leader, summoned Mr Yeltsin to Moscow in 1985 that he began to differentiate himself from dozens of other senior party apparatchiks.
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