Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brainwaves through the use of electrodes, a device no larger than a pack of cigarettes can gauge a person's level of concentration. If his mind begins to wander, a tone sounds, jolting him from his reverie. If he continues to daydream, another alarm goes off, notifying his boss, his teacher or some Big Brother who can promptly set the dreamer straight...
...Agent Neal Thorpe, who returns to the spy game to save Werber's beautiful stepdaughter Annalise (who knows too much). He loves espionage ("He was alive again") but loathes politics. When Thorpe snorts in disgust at a mere mention of the U.N., his mysterious CIA boss, "the man called Smith," replies: "I may agree with your appraisal of the U.N., but so long as our government counts it a worthwhile forum, I feel bound to do so too." Hunt describes the CIA as "grown old and cautious, prim, reliant on technology far more than human beings...
Finally, late last spring, Laurin told his boss that he was ready to drop the horse into his first race. When she said she was going to be away on a trip, he said, "I'll wait; I think you ought to be here when he runs." Coming from a cautious and laconic trainer, that kind of statement requires translation. Mrs. Tweedy's spirit soared. The translation could only be: "When this baby runs, you're going to see something...
...federal prosecutors began to discover new potentials in the granting of immunity. Instead of being used as a dispensation to petty hoodlums in the hope of getting them to testify against their leaders, it could be used against the leaders themselves. Immunity was forced, for example, on Chicago Mob Boss Sam Giancana, against whom it had been impossible to get any criminal conviction. When Giancana still refused to talk to a grand jury, he had to spend a year in prison for contempt until the grand jury expired...
...says Donald Frey, chairman of Bell & Howell, a Republican who now considers himself "neutral." In corporations as in Government, several officials note, executive assistants sometimes give orders in the chief's name without his knowledge -but if an assistant gets his superior in trouble by taking the boss's name in vain, he is booted out immediately, with no expressions of regret. Says a New York textile maker, who once discovered that an overzealous assistant was tapping other employees' telephones in an attempt to expose a thief: "I gave him 15 minutes to get the taps...