Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Washington since Golda Meir rejected the Rogers peace plan eight years ago. The statement expressed "regret and protest" about the Vance remark, insisted that the settlements were "legal, legitimate and essential," and even suggested that Vance's views on the matter did not square with those of his boss. President Carter defended his Secretary of State the next day in a firm statement read by Press Secretary Jody Powell: There was "no contradiction" between Vance's remark and any statement ever made by the President...
Atherton's new job is all the more difficult because he will be following in the contrails of both his own boss and Henry Kissinger. As Secretaries of State, they were able to speak directly for their Presidents, and could make decisions on the spot. While Atherton clearly lacks that kind of authority, he is ideally suited for the latest shuttle. Reason: he is more familiar than any other American diplomat with the technical problems that will dominate the political discussions...
...White House has become involved in a maneuver to oust yet another top-level holdover Republican appointee. He is Oakley Hunter, chosen by Richard Nixon as chairman of the Federal National Mortgage Association, known as Fannie Mae, the nation's largest provider of housing finance. As boss of Fannie Mae, Hunter has been feuding with Patricia Harris, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Largely to appease her, the White House acted last week on a HUD memo urging that an emissary be chosen to end the quarrel, perhaps by bringing about Hunter's "voluntary resignation." The memo named...
...children his age working in the fields, helping their parents, when he himself was doing nothing. His feelings take on a stronger idealistic tone at 11, when he writes an essay in school explaining why he is lucky and "unlucky" and how he does not want to be the "boss" when he grows up, because...
...issues a string of business and personal memos, which appear instantly on the genie screen. After his shower, which has turned itself on at exactly the right temperature at the right minute, Mr. A. is alerted by a buzzer and a blue light on the screen. His boss, the company president, is on his way to the office. A. dresses and saunters out to the car. The engine, of course, is running...