Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that, the Russians and their allies studiously avoided a direct attack on the U.S. Evidently, they were taking no chances of upsetting Nixon's scheduled Moscow summit meeting with Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev in May. In private, the Russians were not so restrained. To a reporter, one Soviet diplomat in Washington complained: "Look how Nixon is trying to exploit our differences with Peking. This is a very dangerous game for you and for everyone...
...points out that in 1970 Connecticut's Commissioner of Motor Vehicles denied a license to a man because "his homosexuality makes him an improper person to hold an operator's license." As another example of discrimination, he cites the prejudice against hiring homosexuals. "Try telling your boss you cannot move to a new job because of your lover"-the only term homosexuals have for the heterosexual equivalent of wife. By tolerance, Altman means the behavior of people who defend his civil rights-and might ask him to dinner-but wouldn't ask his lover, or invite...
DUBIOUS ASSUMPTIONS lie under the most tantalizing metaphors, works of art, philosophical arguments. Last summer my boss, a journalist, described America's radical movement as a rape by disturbing forces to which the country would now for ever be reluctantly indebted for its arousal. This provoked an irate and speedy reaction from a nun, who began her letter: "Perhaps it's just journalism...
Right now, few workers are covered by contracts that lay down rules for merit raises. Such contracts may provide, for instance, that a new employee will receive a specified merit raise at some time during his first year when his boss decides that he has successfully completed a trial period. The new ruling is of greatest interest to salaried workers who bargain individually for pay raises. The board decided that in general, merit raises under old or new plans can increase the aggregate compensation of an "employee group" by 7% at the most...
...months since Poland's pragmatic Party Boss Edward Gierek took power, the nation's writers and intellectuals-reflecting the view of Poles in general-have found that it is possible to live with Gierek's moderate regime. Stage Director Kazimierz Dej-mek has returned from exile and is again in favor; he was disgraced in 1968 for putting on a heavily anti-Russian production of Patriot-Poet Adam Mickiewicz's 19th century play Dziady, which included the line "The only things Moscow sends us are jackasses, idiots and spies." Writer Stefan Kisie-lewski, who was severely...