Word: boss
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...well balanced against one another, and have divided up the job of ruling Russia. As party boss, Brezhnev controls vast patronage and for this reason is undoubtedly the most powerful member of the group. He also concentrates on the reform of Soviet agriculture and has overall responsibility for the increasingly delicate task of maintaining relations with the other Communist countries. Premier Kosygin is a sort of executive vice president who runs the regime's industrial liberalization, takes care of the Russian consumer-whose needs this year for the first time are given precedence over heavy industry-and handles...
...election is seen not only as a defeat for Negroes and the MFDP, but also as a victory for NAACP leader Charles Evers, who has been described as Mississippi's "Tammany boss...
...Conduct that it could see nothing wrong with his acceptance of $160,000 in legal fees since 1961. While many Senators moonlight,* there were dark hints that Long had profited from his chairmanship of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure by accepting fees to help Teamsters Boss Jimmy Hoffa. Investigating a LIFE article on Long's finances, the ethics committee, made up of three Democrats and three Republicans, reported that its staff had questioned 33 witnesses, made four out-of-town trips, and had failed to find any connection between Long's Senate actions and Hoffa...
Detroit's No. 1 salesman last week was United Auto Workers Boss Walter Reuther. Having left the Ford Motor Co. bargaining table with the richest labor settlement in industry history, he now had to sell the terms to the boys. The 35-month contract was worth "seven hundred to eight hundreds of millions of dollars," in wages and benefits, he said on an hour-long TV pitch. "I tell you that we have squeezed and squeezed and squeezed...
...fact to which most Britishers are waking up to is that they do not want to work with colored people, that they do not want to eat with them, that they do not want to share toilet facilities. Above all, they do not want a colored man for their boss...