Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pocket veto. He drafts all Executive orders and prepares legal opinions for the President on many matters. A cautious, loyal follower of orders, he is totally trusted by the President. Unlike many a Cabinet member or White House aide, Dean has easy, frequent and direct access to the boss. Since the Gray hearings began, Dean has refused to be interviewed or photographed by the press...
...regular as a stockbroker's. But assignment to a small city can mean excessive travel, irregular hours and unplanned schedule changes. The ideal assignment is in a middle-sized city like Madison, Wis., or Boulder, Colo., where as agents say, "You can pretty much be your own boss...
Normally AFL-CIO Chief George Meany treats former Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa with the silent contempt he might reserve for a scab laborer. But a few weeks ago, Hoffa delivered a diatribe that Meany could not ignore. Publicly championing a Teamsters assault on Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers Union, Hoffa declared that the fledgling AFL-CIO affiliate must be stamped out because "Chavez is incompetent." An angry Meany responded at a press conference by charging that the Teamsters, whom he booted out of the AFL-CIO 15 years ago, were guilty of "strikebreaking...
...appears that Harris is locked into his present position. Late in 1971, he had enough support to get on the all-powerful War Board. Unfortunately, his new boss at SEPTA, himself a Republican bigwig, decided that the position was too public for a lobbyist, and ordered him to decline...
...only recently come to SEPTA, was disappointed: "I left the college not because I wanted to - I was starving to death. PMC is constantly on the edge of bankruptcy. This opportunity came along and I took it because I knew it was something I would enjoy. When the boss told me it wasn't a good idea I couldn't really argue...