21.  They have eased some of the most corrupt officials out of office and have reined in the feared paramilitary gunmen linked to local PRI bosses.

22.  What infuriated reservists about the local party boss was his mobilizing zeal for the war in Kosovo.

23.  When he returned to his native Stavropol district in southern Russia to become a local Communist Party boss, she joined him and took up a career in teaching.

24.  A Chinese court has sentenced to death a disgruntled law enforcement official and the two assassins he hired for killing the local Communist Party boss and wounding another official.

25.  A Chinese court will soon put on trial a local Communist Party boss for bribery and misconduct in connection with a bridge collapse that crystallized public fears about corruption.

26.  Angry villagers have occupied town halls and thrown out local political bosses, mostly from the ruling party, accused of corruption.

27.  Boris Yeltsin, then the local Communist Party boss, has said he did not know about the germ warfare facility at the time.

28.  Critics charged that local bosses were manipulating the cultural issue to keep themselves in power.

29.  It said local party bosses had been approached by supporters who wanted to rally.

30.  Local political bosses traditionally have been allowed to run regional affairs as they like as long as they ensured the election of national PRI candidates.