Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...atmoshphere in the council chambers subsided after that, at least on the city manager issue. Sullivan's former assistant city manager, John H. Corcoran, took his old boss's post. But Corcoran was a relatively weak manager, and by 1974 the city faced many unsolved problems: corruption the housing authority, excessive demands for wages from municipal unions, stagnation of Kendall Square development efforts and confusion in the city's federal aid programs. The council decided that Cambridge needed a strong manager in fact as well as in charter, and in 1974, after elections had brought another shift in the line...
...Cabinet chiefs fanned out across the country, striving to wedge their energy appeals into long-scheduled speeches on other subjects, their boss led the way. All week the President went all out, barraging congressional leaders, key legislators, consumer and labor representatives with his energy pleas...
...Administration finally was working hard to achieve an outcome that would be successful from its perspective. Aides to Secretary of State Cyrus Vance could not suppress their laughter when their boss, appearing on TV's Meet the Press, stood a question on its head in order to insert a plug for Carter's energy program. Asked whether the President planned to visit Saudi Arabia during his nine-nation trip next month, Vance fairly pounced...
Other testimony revealed, in at least one instance, exactly where in the Capitol Kim was headed. Nan Elder, an aide to Kansas Republican Representative Larry Winn Jr., recalled that in 1972 a Korean had dropped an envelope off in her boss's office and that she opened it, at Winn's request, to find "more money than I've ever seen in my life." She tracked the man down at another Congressman's office, and he returned to pick up the rejected gift. Elder has identified the Korean from a selection of 14 pictures...
These tightening links raise the conceivability of a global organization, or perhaps a loose confederation, with a single leader-a boss of all bosses of world terrorism. At the moment, the most probable candidate for that job would be Wadi Haddad, 48, a squat Palestinian who operates covertly from both Libya and Iraq. (He seeks anonymity to a point that one of the few pictures of him known to have existed has been stolen from the files of an Arab government intelligence agency.) Born in Safad, near Lake Tiberias, Haddad studied pediatric medicine at the American University of Beirut...