Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...imaginative" and "inspired." Peter Peterson, head of the newly merged investment banking house of Lehman Bros. Kuhn Loeb Inc. and a longtime friend of both Burns and Miller, said of Miller: "He's a highly sophisticated, aware, dedicated and mature business manager and human being." AFL-CIO Boss George Meany, an archenemy of Burns, praised Carter for dropping the old chairman and "moving away from the discredited policies that created the last recession. Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, said that he might vote against Miller's confirmation because of his lack of banking...
Some steps toward disarmament are being taken by OSHA'S new boss, Eula Bingham, 48, a former science professor at the University of Cincinnati. Apparently she has heeded President Carter's executive order of last November calling for "simple and clear regulations" and less interference with individuals and organizations. She pared by half the number of OSHA forms that employers must fill out, and virtually eliminated them for small businessmen who employ ten or fewer people. In December, she announced that OSHA is abolishing 1,100 of its more than 10,000 regulations; her hit list will require more than...
...front, pulled at her elastic bodice and was prompted to say, loudly enough for several others to hear, 'I've always wanted to see the Pyramids.' " Did it really happen? Better ask the Sphinx, because nobody else is talking. Does it really matter? Hamilton's boss doesn't seem to think so. When Quinn's story appeared, Jimmy Carter's only complaint was that it took up far more space than the paper's year-end review of his Administration's record...
...brokers brought this notion to their boss, Julien Studley, then 41, head of an aggressive real estate firm in the neighborhood. "Who would put up the building?" Studley mused; then he had an idea. "How about the people across the street?" Across the street, as it happened, was the corporate headquarters of First National City Corp. (now Citicorp...
...touched. A gasp rose from the courtroom, which was packed with Barnes' friends and relatives. Convicted along with Barnes were four of his "lieutenants" plus six members of a "lower echelon," all of them charged with conspiracy. It was they who actually negotiated bulk deals for their boss. Prosecutors said Barnes never handled the drugs himself. His defense attorney, David Breitbart, said he would challenge the prosecution's evidence once again and appeal verdict, which carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment and a minimum sentence of ten years. Meanwhile, Barnes, who was denied bail, will...