Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...never sure of the reaction they will get. A young San Francisco attorney who handles the account of a major oil company for one of the city's most prestigious law firms finally steeled himself to reveal his homosexuality to one of his senior partners at dinner. The boss said he did not care, but cautioned the lawyer not to tell the other senior partners just yet. Elaine Noble, another assistant to Boston Mayor White, belongs to a 200-member organization of Boston-area lesbian professionals-bankers, lawyers, stockbrokers, ad people. She is one of merely a handful of members...
Music executives know that the songs and performers that most excite gay audiences have the best chance of selling nationally. Music indeed is one field in which being gay can be a benefit. Marc Paul Simon, vice president of Casablanca Record and Filmworks in Los Angeles, told a boss about his homosexuality his second day on an earlier job at Twentieth Century Fox Records. Says Simon: "I made it a selling point. I told him that I would be an advantage, since the best clubs...
...said she frequently found that women are not chosen for upper level positions at their jobs no matter how long they work. "We're simply around to break in the boss," she added...
...vote-the biggest landslide in Chicago history. The political heirs of the late Richard J. Daley were impressed. "A gracious woman . . . a young woman ... a girl," stammered Cook County Democratic Leader George Dunne, searching for a handle. Sun-Times Columnist Mike Royko, who milked the bestselling Boss from Daley's two decades in office, already refers to the gracious woman . . . young woman . . . girl as "Mayor Bossy...
...trouble, it takes a bit more searching to find Sneath. First, I wait while his receptionist contacts one of his staff assistants. Then a vice president receives me in his office, giving me Sneath's background and accomplishments, and generally scrutinizing me to see if I might traumatize his boss with an ill-chosen question. Finally, the vice president accompanies me to Sneath's enormous office--and stays for the interviews, injecting his comments quickly whenever I broach what he thinks is a sensitive issue...