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  • The Republicans will nominate some long-time apparatchick like Rob Portman, who will be at least as easily beatable as Gramps Voinovich.

    Election Central Morning Roundup 2009

  • Under the Stalinist regime of which this Inspector Hepworth is a loyal apparatchick, the truth could not be published.

    Bigmouth Strikes Again « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2006

  • According to the latest edition of Private Eye, British troops in Basra were distinctly underwhelmed by defence secretary Des Browne on his inaugural visit last month "Smug, sleek and fat - and every inch a New Labour apparatchick" one of them informed the magazine.

    The ministers must lie Richard 2006

  • Politicians, burn your bloody scripts, forget the over-sculpted, apparatchick hair styles and personas and please, please, please speak from the heart - if you have hearts, that is.

    Great Television Moments: No 94 2007

  • The years that followed saw strikes by the CPI (M) - backed Students Federation of India, lawsuits by colleges and abuses exchanged between the church eminences and the party apparatchick.

    Blogs navigation 2009

  • Maybe Uday Hussein would still be alive if he’d married some North Korean apparatchick.

    Matthew Yglesias » Requests We Can Believe In 2009

  • Maybe Uday Hussein would still be alive if he’d married some North Korean apparatchick.

    Matthew Yglesias » Requests We Can Believe In 2009

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