Word: boss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...former boss and later when I made him a minority partner in my business, I am mortified that my good friend and geologist, Franc. R. Joubin, should write as he does of my career [June 10]. When Canadian Franc. Joubin was employed by me, the price of uranium had already been fixed by the U.S. at the rate of $8 or better per pound for all uranium-producing countries. Canada was not excluded. The North Span Uranium Mine was completely financed by Morgan, Stanley & Co. and the Chase Manhattan Bank to the extent of about $90 million...
...Boss. Nowadays this is usually done with tact-but originally it took toughness as well. Shortly after he took over in 1964, Barzel called a caucus of the party's 240 deputies and announced that if one more squabble erupted in public, the party could consider his resignation. "Everybody looked at Konrad Adenauer and the other older leaders, waiting for challenge," recalls one deputy. "It did not come. Young Barzel walked out of there the boss...
...Reds. Moro's men were quick to boast that the outcome proved the worth of the Centra Sinistra, the ruling center-left coalition created largely for the purpose of isolating the Commu nists. It also reflected the absence of an effective successor to the late Communist Party boss Palmiro Togliatti, Italy's growing affluence, and the increasing moderation of Italian voters...
...which led Brazilians to call their new tax boss "Travancas the Terrible." "I am not terrible," he protests. "I just want to enforce the law." To most of his countrymen, that is terrible enough...
...intends to be the new giver of gospel. While Abernethy scowled at a press conference and puffed a six-inch cigar down to the stub, Evans committed the automaking heresy of knocking the styling of his company's cars. For this he blamed-however illogically-former A.M.C. Boss George Romney, who left a full four years ago to make his successful bid to become Governor of Michigan. As a result of Romney's legacy of compact economy and "boxy" styling, claimed Evans, American Motors' cars "didn't have something to excite the public...