Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gold mines--dehumanizing experience number one. Soon he loses that job, and in rapid succession he loses a few others--houseboy, gas station attendant, waiter, road crew--when the white employers become displeased with him. These contacts with Afrikaaners and Britishers--who insist on being called "Boss" or something equally demeaning--are typified in this encounter with the shrewish woman who hires, then summarily fires, Zach as her houseboy...
...hardliners, Libya's Muammar Gaddafi and P.L.O. Boss Yasser Arafat, even undertook a sudden trip to Jordan to try to persuade their longtime enemy, King Hussein, to boycott the Israeli-Egyptian negotiations. It was an extraordinary idea?Hussein and Arafat had not met on Jordanian soil since 1970, the year that the P.L.O. virtually seized control of Amman until the King attacked and expelled them. Hussein quickly rejected the new ploy. "The King," said a Jordanian official, "will not respond to any appeals or pressures, and his moderate stance remains the same...
...case he should change his mind. Kennedy is making sure he stays in the public eye. While attending a health conference in Russia, he met with Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev and urged him to take steps to improve relations with the U.S. As Kennedy understood it, the Soviet boss agreed to review the cases of 18 families who have been refused permission to emigrate. Later, the Senator met with a group of dissidents, including Andrei Sakharov and the mother and brother of Anatoli Shcharansky, who has been sentenced to prison for his protests...
...been tainted by the widespread corruption that investigators have unearthed at the GSA, which spends $5 billion a year to provide federal bureaucrats with office space, supplies and housekeeping services. The cause for Griffin's dismissal was said to be only a personality conflict with his boss, GSA Administrator Jay Solomon...
...Petrillo. He sent Clinkscales a. notice that he was being transferred to Fort Worth. But Petrillo later had second thoughts about the transfer, which he felt violated GSA personnel rules, and canceled it. At the same time, Petrillo submitted his own resignation, but it was rejected by his boss, GSA Director of Administration G.C. Gardner...