Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tackle the growers on a substantive issue. In 1964, the N.F.W.A. took one employer to court for paying less than the then minimum wage of $1.25 per hour, and after months of wrangling, won the case. The amounts of money gained were small but the point was made: a boss could be beaten. Then the association sued the Tulare County housing authority over the rents and conditions at two labor camps, built in the late 1930s and intended to be used for only a few years. The camps were a hideous collection of 9-ft. by 11-ft. tin shacks...
...movement a semblance of democracy. It was the first summit in history in which Communists were allowed to disagree with the majority view and could hold to their divergent beliefs without threat of being thrown out of the movement. At the farewell reception in the Kremlin, Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev assured his guests that the "free and frank" discussions had made, in his words, "a new, weighty contribution to the development of our revolutionary theory...
...deposited at the Kremlin before 10 a.m. each morning. After four hours of eloquence, the delegates had a two-hour break. Most of them dined on caviar and cold cuts in the first-floor dining room of the Great Kremlin Palace. In a pointed show of conviviality, Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, Premier Aleksei Kosygin and other Russian leaders pulled up chairs to various tables and joined the foreign delegates. Then it was back to business in ornate St. George's Hall for the afternoon's hortatory oratory...
Soviet Defenders. However, most of the delegates vied with one another in justifying Soviet policies. The most ironic support for Moscow came from Czechoslovakia's Party Boss Gustav Husak, who succeeded the deposed reformer Alexander Dubcek. He said that Soviet military intervention served Czechoslovakia's best interests and dismissed foreign Communist critics of the action as having only superficial knowledge of the situation. East Germany's Walter Ulbricht, Hungary's Janos Kadar and Bulgaria's Todor Zhivkov vigorously defended the Soviet positions. Most likely, the Soviets could be confident that when the conference ends, probably...
...members. It involves minimal manpower and bloodshed. As in judo, the secret is to use leverage and make a state overthrow itself. Bureaucracy facilitates this by severing the loyalties that once personally bound rulers and their servants. A modern bureaucrat follows impersonal orders; if his immediate boss is subverted, the bureaucrat tends to obey orders blindly, even orders designed to topple his own government...