91.  Although no longer a Communist, he is the former party boss in the central agricultural region and has wide support.

92.  Although no longer a Communist, Stroyev is the former party boss in the central agricultural region and has wide support.

93.  But his long service as mayor and party boss of the capital fanned speculation he was too powerful to prosecute.

94.  Critics accuse Madrazo of acting as an old-fashioned party boss while governor of Tabasco state until this year, driving many local leaders out of the PRI.

95.  Doctors treating former French Communist Party chief Georges Marchais for heart trouble implanted a pacemaker last week, party boss Robert Hue said Sunday.

96.  Dozens of black Mercedes and Audis, the cars favored by party bosses, and a couple of ambulances took up part of the vast parking lot.

97.  Emmanuelli had been handpicked by party bosses as the candidate, but voters chose Jospin, who has consistently outscored his rival in polls.

98.  Fields, who once headed the state chapter of the NAACP, said Democrats should be worrying about more than just collecting support from party bosses.

99.  Former communist party boss Hans Albrecht turned himself in Monday, the last of the three to begin serving their jail sentences.

100.  He often tells Venezuelans that corrupt party bosses from the past are responsible for their current ills, and most seem to believe him.