Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...newspaper Revolucion and the vice minister of the armed forces. The editor lost his job, and the vice minister obediently made a public breast-beating confession of his errors. To Castrologists, all this meant that Castro was making sure that the old-guard Communists knew who was boss...
...dailies (total circ. 877,000) largely located in upper New York State. The competent Gannett papers grew fat under the laissez-faire leadership of the late Frank Ernest Gannett, who permitted his editors wide latitude to run their shows as they saw fit, even down to disputing the boss...
There it stayed until the 1890s, when Felix Hoffmann, working for Friedrich Bayer & Co. outside Düsseldorf, tried the drug on his father and found that it miraculously eased the old man's rheumatic pains. Hoffmann's boss, Heinrich Dreser, coined the name aspirin, and rushed the drug to market. Aspirin was a registered trade name, and still is in Germany, though it lost that privileged status in the U.S. in 1917, when the Monsanto Co. began to make it in large quantities. Like nearly all other important chemicals, it is now made synthetically from coal...
...home until summoned by closed-circuit TV when something goes wrong with the machine. People will like their jobs more when the drudgery is removed. Although room at the top may be reserved for a small elite speaking an argot no one else understands, much of the current worker-boss strain may vanish as men relate to machines rather than one another. This has already happened to Air Force men tending the SAGE warning system. Ranks seem to blur, says one officer. "All of the interaction seems to be with the electronic system," he explains...
...went to work for his father, the founder of the ice-cream chain; he and Sister Dorothy, 8, beamed down from billboards proclaiming that "We love our daddy's ice cream." Now 32, Johnson still works for Daddy-but he is about to become his own boss. Last week he announced that in June Howard Dearing Johnson, now 67, will retire as chief executive of the nation's largest restaurant chain-675 restaurants, 175 motor lodges and annual sales of $127 million-to let his son take over. Young Johnson went to Andover, Yale and Harvard Business School...