Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...left hanging. Agent 007, of course, survives to brave new dangers in Doctor No, in which it is revealed that he had been dealt a near fatal dose of fugu poison. "It comes from the sex organs of the Japanese globe-fish," an eminent neurologist tells Bond's boss. "It's terrible stuff and very quick...
...Giscard d'Estaing. Moscow may also have been embarrassed by the attention the affair was attracting in the West, where it was being viewed as a test of whether the Soviets intend to live up to the "humanitarian" clauses of the Helsinki declaration signed by Soviet Communist Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev last month. One clause of the agreement requires the Soviet Union to "examine favorably and on the basis of humanitarian considerations requests for exit or entry permits" for Soviet citizens and foreigners who want to marry...
...healthy though hardly exuberant recovery is supported by reports from businessmen round the country; generally they are pleased with the first signs of revival, though many are impatient for more substantial evidence that activity has picked up. "It looks like a slower than normal recovery," says Chicago Banker Edward Boss. The brightest portent so far is department-and specialty-store sales, which have spurted rapidly in recent weeks. In Boston, Filene's and other stores with fancy boutiques are getting a healthy run from shoppers, many willing to pay up to $75 for a pair of shoes, while such...
...past two months, a bitter division within the Armed Forces Movement had brought government in Portugal to a virtual standstill and the country perilously close to civil war. Focus of the dispute was General Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves, 54, a close ally of Communist Party Boss Alvaro Cunhal and a woolly-minded Marxist ideologue who favored the creation in Portugal of a socialist state along Eastern European lines. Last week in an apparent victory for moderate forces within the M.F.A., Gonçalves fell from power. In the face of virtually open rebellion by non-Communist officers...
...unemployment, which Healey indicated the Labor government does not intend to combat by reflating the economy. With unemployment already heading toward 1.5 million and beyond, the unions' resolve to cooperate with the government's program may weaken well before the twelve-month agreement expires. Left-wing Union Boss Ken Gill has already protested that "this wage control is about as voluntary as rape." His was a minority voice last week, but it may not remain...