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  • He, one of the greatest Soviet physicists and the youngest member of its Academy of Sciences, became the politburo's most implacable opponent.

    In praise of… Andrei Sakharov and Yelena Bonner 2011

  • He, one of the greatest Soviet physicists and the youngest member of its Academy of Sciences, became the politburo's most implacable opponent.

    In praise of… Andrei Sakharov and Yelena Bonner 2011

  • Setting arbitrary payroll categories is more of the same centralized planning that we thought ended when the Berlin War came down and the various politburo's went out of business.

    House Democrats agree on health-care position, chairman says 2009

  • China also supplied arms to both the Burmese junta and ethnic guerrillas fighting the junta depending on the politburo's mood swings.

    Derek Flood: From South to South: Refugees as Migrants: The Rohingya in Pakistan 2008

  • The team would table its report to the SACP politburo and a press briefing would be held on Sunday to announce the politburo's decision.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • The weekly Standard newspaper claimed Sunday that the ruling party politburo's (ZANU-PF) top decision-making body had recently blasted the cheap products, known locally as zhing-zhongs.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2006

  • Didymus Mutasa, the politburo's administrator, on Monday said legislation to change the retirement age would also ensure that children orphaned by parents with Aids would become beneficiaries of the pensions.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • Another country will doubtless think of this as well, but they'll probably use all those unwanted baby girls and the leftover bits of the political prisoners after the politburo's organ transplants. i was wondering if he d changed his name to neil.... but after reading more, i thought, 'nah!'...

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2011

  • In fairness, China's rulers haven't hung their free-market economists from the politburo's balcony (at least not recently).

    News & Record Article Feed 2010

  • It was the outfit's guerrilla wing chief, Kishan, who assigned Deepak the task to carry out the politburo's plan.

    The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) - Frontpage 2010

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