Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first visit to the U.S. of a Soviet party boss since Nikita Khrushchev's boisterous tour in 1959, Leonid Ilich Brezhnev spent eight days in America, apparently taking ebullient joy in almost every moment of his stay as Richard Nixon's guest. His mission was, of course, deadly serious: he wants U.S. money, technological know-how and hardware to develop the Soviet economy. In return, he implied future flexibility on arms control and proffered access to the Soviet Union's cornucopia of raw materials and a considerable amount of purposeful good will and bonhomie...
...Dean) Day was at hand. With the best of motives, Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield called time out in the Watergate hearings for the duration of Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev's visit to the U.S. But coming on the very brink of the TV appearance of John W. Dean III, the President's former counsel and now most dangerous accuser, the sudden and unexpected pause in public testimony did little to keep Watergate from crowding Brezhnev for press attention...
More and more Americans have a foreign boss in their future. Propelled by hopes of profit and fears of protectionism, foreign firms are swallowing up American companies or forming their own U.S. subsidiaries to produce goods as diverse as turbines and carpets, chocolate and steel. The tide of investment from overseas has been significantly quickened by the abysmal decline in U.S. stock prices, which enables dollar-laden European and Japanese businessmen to pick up U.S. concerns at bargain rates. Of the corporations buying into America, Frank Sheaffer, the Commerce Department's international investment chief, says: "It is never going...
...keep inflation from climbing even higher. Now the Teamsters are reported ready to settle this week for annual wage and benefit increases averaging about 7% over each of the next three years. However, the freeze on company prices could complicate final negotiations. A warm relationship has grown between Teamster Boss Frank Fitzsimmons and President Nixon, and there had been some fear among truck owners that the union would flaunt its clout in the White House to push for a much higher settlement...
...fire her and take another job himself. Here, as elsewhere, Korda often chooses an odd example, then proceeds on the assumption that it is some kind of norm. In real life, secretaries are often victimized. But how many have been fired-as happens to another Korda victim-because the boss's wife saw them driving away from work in an aunt's Rolls-Royce...