(Several weeks later, Cardoza will charge $500 for a Washington event that draws party bigwigs.)

Tosi was criticized also by other party bigwigs, such as Francesca Martini, while Furlanetto even proposed the ejection of Tosi from the party.

She was speaking of Soviet-era realities, when goods in state stores were quickly snatched up by employees or set aside for party bigwigs.

Many of these strategists and party bigwigs - not all, but many - speak as though there is something inevitable about Mrs. Clinton ascending to the nomination.

But he reportedly managed to build easy working relationships with both party bigwigs and more reform-minded elements of the Soviet bureaucracy.

Francisco Labastida, a seasoned politician favored by party bigwigs, clobbered his nearest competitor, Roberto Madrazo, the maverick governor of the Tobasco region.

Despite only grudging support from the party bigwigs, she achieved substantial victories in each of her four elections.

They beat each other to "first interviews" with party bigwigs and made sure that viewers knew of their scoops, such as they were.

His mistress, the daughter of a Communist party bigwig, says she's pregnant and Tadeusz knows he'll have to marry her to save his reputation and his job.

"There couldn't be a better time to stop feeding the bellies of the party bigwigs," Olga Alimova sneered.