Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...supervisor. Bob Barnet had a Ph.D. in economics, but was prouder of a pin he had just been awarded marking his 20 years of Government service. Barnet showed me the ropes, then leaned back and laid out his philosophy of how to succeed in the bureaucracy: please your boss, cover your ass and always, always be cautious. Patience was the greatest virtue. The way to get ahead was not to outshine everyone else, but to do precisely what your superiors wanted, prove your loyalty and get to know everything you could about the bureaucracy's inner workings...
...either of us to get any work done. My life became a mind-numbing swamp of monologues about who got what promotion, why it was undeserved, which employees hated each other and why. "That goddam Elizabeth," Barnet would rant, "she's in there with Cobourn [his own boss] every day, pushing her way into everything...
...upper hand in the collective leadership that succeeded Ho Chi Minh. The eleven-man Politburo is divided between pragmatists who want to concentrate on internal reconstruction and hard-liners who are bent on military adventure, despite the gruesome hardships involved. The hardliners, led by pro-Soviet Party Boss Le Duan and Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap, are in control. Says a diplomat long acquainted with Hanoi...
...France, Italy and Spain, the major Eurocommunist parties all lined up against China, with one quirky difference: as a reminder of his vaunted autonomy from Moscow, Spanish Communist Party Boss Santiago Carrillo compared China's aggression against Viet Nam to the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. Throughout Latin America, leftist groups raised an anti-Chinese chorus. Thousands of students marched down Mexico City's Paseo de la Reforma with banners that said VIVA VIET NAM?VANGUARD OF THE WORLD REVOLUTION...
...work after the big snows in the East last week, a number of Manhattanites, from Wall Street lawyers to Broadway actors, simply got out their cross-country skis. So did Washingtonians, including Presidential Press Secretary Jody Powell, enabling him to better explain his boss's tumble while learning the sport in Maryland's Catoctin Mountain National Park near Camp David...