Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...staff, but not too sophisticated. That is, he did not want another intellectual who would give him an argument; he got plenty of that from the academicians who worked for him. Haig stayed discreetly in the background, channeling the flow of ideas, keeping people in line, while his boss concentrated on his grand policy design...
After 19 years in office, Mayor Richard Daley seems as permanent a part of the city of Chicago as Lake Michigan. His powerful Democratic machine has survived race riots, violent political demonstrations and endless scandals. But last week, with the boss recovering from a mild stroke, many Chicagoans were seriously thinking the unthinkable: that perhaps the end of the Daley era was in sight...
Shortly after the Social Democratic Party suffered a serious setback in a Hamburg state by-election last March, Helmut Schmidt, 55, went on television and bluntly accused his boss, Willy Brandt, of weak leadership and laxity. That kind of pugnacity long ago earned West Germany's new Chancellor-nominate the nickname "Schmidt-Schnauze" (Schmidt the Lip). Friends and enemies alike describe him as an "American-style" politician, in reference to his rough-and-tumble skill as an infighter. Certainly no one has ever accused him of indecision or timidity- or of hiding his ambition to take over Brandt...
...identify themselves with the history of Gaullism, but not with the right of big business," he declared. He reminded Gaullists that Giscard was partly responsible for the general's forced retirement in 1969 when Giscard urged a non vote against De Gaulle. Even Mitterrand's ally, Communist Boss Georges Marchais, could not resist getting in on the act, despite the generally low profile his party has been keeping in order not to embarrass Mitterrand. "Gaullists and Communists, even if they have been sometimes violently opposed, have always been united at different stages," said Marchais...
Besides following the chain of command in the family, Christians should also be obedient to their employers and their government, Gothard asserts. Only if an order from a parent, the state or a boss conflicts with God's explicit commandments may it be disobeyed. But first the Christian is supposed to follow six complex steps, beginning with an examination of his own bad attitudes...