41.  Indeed, party boss Jospin spent much of the campaign chipping away at the EMU requirements, saying he would oppose any further belt-tightening measures aimed at meeting them.

42.  It transplanted the political model of big-city Democrats to the Republican suburbs of Long Island, with party bosses choosing candidates for office.

43.  Jiang already has used an anti-graft crusade to topple one major political rival, the former Beijing party boss.

44.  Kremlin courtiers down the centuries have realized that czars in their dotage and decrepit party bosses have their uses.

45.  Meanwhile, Long is enjoying his moment in the August sun as a minor party boss with a big-time supplicant.

46.  McCall has a dauntingly long list of endorsements from party bosses, elected officials and union leaders, while Cuomo has only a handful of prominent, declared supporters.

47.  Nearly everyone involved in running elections around the state, from election commissioners to the clerks who count ballots, is chosen by party bosses.

48.  Naimoosheen sees President Boris Yeltsin as nothing more than the party boss he was for most of his adult life.

49.  Oleg Lobov, a Yeltsin crony since the days when Yeltsin was the party boss in Sverdlovsk, was demoted from first deputy prime minister to deputy prime minister.

50.  Now Long is no longer reticent about detailing his conversation with Engel, and his displeasure with Washington party bosses in general.