61.   She interviews party bosses who steadfastly ignore her state of undress while spewing the usual cant.

62.   Similarly, Ferraro never let the party bosses, whoever they might be, get in her way.

63.   So far, the party bosses have kept control, sometimes through brute force, preventing elected leaders from doing their jobs and thwarting the scrutiny of village accounts.

64.   Still, the party boss mentality persists, as does the sprawling, mind-numbing bureaucracy that epitomized the Soviet state.

65.   The building might have been spacious enough to house the party bosses for decades, but capitalism is busting out.

66.   The diplomat described Arafat as acting more like a party boss and propagandist than a chief of government.

67.   The generation-old rise of the primary was supposed to devolve power from party bosses to party members.

68.   The party bosses put him in, and then he surprised them by going his own way, winning public support with his advocacy of corporate regulation.

69.   The party bosses gave the nomination to Vice President Hubert Humphrey and blocked attempts to adopt a mild plank supporting negotiations to end the war in Vietnam.

70.   Then, in the free-wheeling days during the transition from communism to capitalism, he and local party bosses embezzled millions of dollars from the company.