Word: boss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Plots & Feathers. Barrientos offered little evidence of an impending revolt. But he had plenty of other reasons to get rid of Lechin. As boss of the country's 26,000 tin miners, the former Vice President had been doing his best to complete the destruction of Bolivia's economy by refusing to cooperate in a program to reform the country's nearly bankrupt Comibol tin-mining enterprise...
...handful of Communists-were fighting and dying for social justice and constitutionalism." Even Walter Lippmann, who had supported the U.S. intervention, hoped for the success of what he called the "legitimatist party-that of the Constitutionalists." But the fact is that Colonel Francisco Caamaño Deñó, boss of the so-called Constitutionalists, had helped overthrow the constitutional President, Juan Bosch, in 1963. And the Bosch constitution that Caamaño was supposedly supporting forbids any military man -Caamaño, for example-to hold office...
Rock 'n' roll lyrics have lately taken on urban socioeconomic themes. In the Crystals' Uptown, downtown is a place where a man "don't get no breaks" and "everyone's his boss, and he's lost in an angry land." But to hear Petula Clark on the subject, Downtown is an island of promise...
...increases by such state-owned enterprises as the Volta Redonda steelworks, whose prices soared 148% last year. Though businessmen yelped when Campos raised taxes and suggested that they trim profit margins, they lined up to take the price pledge with a minimum of arm twisting. Says Max Pearce, the boss of Willys-Overland do Brasil: "Who can take the risk of not signing up?" New applications are pouring in so fast that CONEP has had to set up six branch offices around the country...
Overshadowed by the Boss. One of the most highly respected of the world's moneymen is Guido Carli, 51, the vigorous, brilliant governor of the Bank of Italy, whose tough austerity measures cooled the nation's inflation last year but won him no popularity contests...