1.  American experts feared for his life, suspecting that former Soviet bosses and associates might seek revenge, he recalled.

2.  How, people ask, could the composer who toadied and cringed before his Soviet bosses have written such bravely beautiful music?

3.  They focused on comments that sounded ever so much like a Soviet boss of old, looking for ways to control bad news.

4.  Those are concepts that the Soviet bosses never comprehended and that helped put them out of business.