Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rise has resulted in absenteeism (425 million work days lost in France alone in 1972) and a growing reluctance on the part of young people to work in factories. Mitbestimmung, or some form of it, is seen as a way of reconciling the new worker and his boss...
...moderate Republican and frequent candidate for public office who has had no newspaper editing experience. He said yesterday that he plans no more firings for now, and most Real Paper staff members, who have been assured of at least 45 days work, seem willing to give their novice boss a fair chance...
...that they were being treated like prisoners. "They won't let me out!" one American complained by telephone to a stateside relative. Said Jacques Carbonel, waving a red official U.S. passport at Aikman: "If I don't show up at my job in Washington on Monday, my boss simply won't believe that I have been held here." Joseph O'Neill, a construction superintendent with a Vietnamese wife and two children, said in disgust: "I helped liberate this place during the war, and I am worse off now than I was then." Roared another American...
...party in 1920, working first as an agitator among soldiers and draftees, and later earned the reputation of a political wunderkind by defeating Socialist Leon Blum for the Assembly. An orthodox Stalinist, Duclos gained leverage in the Communist International, virtually directed the 1946 expulsion of onetime U.S. Party Boss Earl Browder for continuing his wartime policy of soft-pedaling the "class struggle." After the Nazis invaded Russia, he organized the French Communist resistance and led its August 1944 insurrection in Paris, emerging from the war as one of the French party's most powerful figures and its presidential candidate...
Truman's approach to world diplomacy remained pure Kansas City. He found Stalin the Soviet dictator "as near like Tom Pendergast as any man I know." (Pendergast was the boss of Democratic politics in Missouri for almost 30 years.) Truman's intentions, according to Mee, were to thwart the Russians in Europe by stalling off a German peace treaty and keeping the Soviet Union out of the Japanese war till the bomb could clinch it for the U.S. He largely accomplished both aims, but neither was much in keeping with the visions of postwar harmony that much...