Word: apparatchik
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Aoki, who briefly stepped in as interim leader, to reveal the full extent of the Prime Minister's illness. Whether Mori can inspire trust and move the country along the path of badly needed financial and economic reforms remains to be seen. His 31-year career as a party apparatchik and former Education Minister and Trade Minister provides no evidence of any ideological convictions. Even members of his party struggled to find words to laud their new leader. "We don't have any qualified candidates, so he'll have to do," said Kazuo Aichi, an L.D.P. member of parliament...