Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...behind the speed trap, and behind everything else in Ludowici, is the county's colorful political boss, Ralph Dawson, 68, a back-country lawyer who has been running Long County since 1932. Always in a brown felt hat and soiled black suit, Dawson heads a political machine that has never lost an election at the county or city level, and he has not taken lightly Maddox's efforts to shut off his speed-trap revenue. Last year Dawson was tossed out of the Governor's office and called a rascal. To which Dawson replied...
...Brezhnev embracing officials, kissing women factory workers, acknowledging the cheers of the crowd, and planting a birch tree at the dedication of a new shrine at Lenin's birthplace in Ulyanovsk. Brezhnev also filled the front pages of Soviet newspapers. Even after Kosygin and Podgorny reappeared, the party boss continued to hog the headlines and prime TV time...
...moratorium" on the deployment of strategic weapons. There were reports, however, that the President has decided to take a broader position at the talks than was originally recommended by some White House advisers. A major imponderable for U.S. policymakers is the leadership situation in the Soviet Union. If Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev is in fact in the process of consolidating his power, he will probably be inclined to move very slowly in Vienna if only to avoid offending the military men whose support he will need...
Politically Touchy. Ford Motor executives checked in advance with State and Commerce Department officials to see if they had any objections to the boss's mission to Moscow. The reply was that he might as well see what the Russians would propose. Some U.S. industrialists have heard that President Nixon's foreign policy advisers are split on whether to approve any deal unless Moscow also makes some political concessions. The Soviet troops that invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968 were so short of trucks that they had to press some milk trucks from Kiev into service. Despite that shortage...
...dining room, and they control most of the hiring and firing. Strohbach confers with the workers' council two or three times a day, but he retains the right to decide what products are made and how. The state may be his partner, but he insists: "Ich bin der Boss...