To critics, Mr. O'Donnell is more like an old-style Irish boss.

An old-style boss of the Bonanno crime family, Mr. Massino was convicted in July in a separate racketeering and murder case.

Although he was armed he did not resist arrest and "behaved like a true, old-style boss", ordering his underlings to hold their fire.

One could note that he gave important positions to Robert and Russell Harding, sons of Raymond Harding, an old-style boss and a power behind the Giuliani throne.

Mr. Hynes has suggested that Mr. Norman is an old-style boss with a stranglehold over Brooklyn judges.

He was an old-style boss who preferred to stay in the background and not draw any attention to himself or his criminal activities if possible.

Ironically, many of the prime minister's harshest critics are the old-style bosses within his own party, but they dare not raise their voices in public while the Koizumi vogue continues.

Mr. Madrazo remains one of the last of the prominent old-style political bosses.

He is a wounded dinosaur, an old-style Communist boss who doesn't understand that the world has moved on.