Word: boss
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...comfortable margin: 137 to 81 for Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroder and 26 for C.D.U. Parliamentary Leader Rainer Barzel. One reason was that Kiesinger had been away from the Bundestag for eight years, thus had fewer enemies. He also had a powerful friend: Franz Josef Strauss, the burly boss of the Bavarian branch of the party, which had publicly endorsed Kiesinger the day before. Another was that he fitted the C.D.U.'s concept of a candidate by being not too Gaullist to alienate the party's Atlanticists and not too Catholic to offend the Protestants. But the main factor...
...coup last June, General Juan Carlos Ongania's prize was a government with a budget deficit of about $800 million. He won possession of a national oil company so overburdened with incompetent politicians that Argentina was importing the fuel for the first time in a decade. He was boss of government-owned railroads with so much obsolete equipment and featherbedding that they were costing taxpayers $1,000,000 a day. Also in the package was a seaport complex that had been idled by strikes for a total of 85 days the year before. For a start, he raised some...
Settling for 23? on the dollar would not normally seem much of a bargain to the Internal Revenue Service. But then it has to consider recent Supreme Court decisions ruling that attorneys' fees in criminal proceedings are taxdeductible. And that certainly applies to Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa, 53, who has had some extra large lawyers' bills to pay in appealing his 1964 convictions for conspiracy and fraud and for attempting to suborn a jury. The IRS agreed in a Detroit U.S. tax court that Hoffa could deduct $81,880 in fees from his tax debt...
...have noticed," said President Tito, "that the newspapers are crammed with stuff they should not contain." What annoyed Yugoslavia's boss was a full-length portrait of a blonde bathing beauty that appeared directly over his own picture on the front page of Politika Ekspres. And then there was that center spread of a nearly nude Carroll Baker that distracted readers from proper appreciation of a front-page cut of Tito surrounded by smiling workers. But the official complaints were notably mild. All Yugoslavia accepts the fact that a frank and breezy tabloid press has become firmly established...
Nikita's successors, Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev and Aleksei Kosygin, have taken a more sympathetic view of Stalin's historical role. The motive is not entirely clear; perhaps B. & K. are reluctant to let Red China take all the credit for Stalinism, or perhaps it has to do with inner Kremlin politics. In any case, they have not only looked the other way to avoid noticing the statues and paintings of Stalin that still adorn many a Georgian town and hotel, but they have even restored Stalin to the history books. Last week Brezhnev went a long step...