Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prefer, cream and sugar) market activity occurred in the Port of New York, which handles nearly half the 2.6 billion pounds of beans the U.S. imports each year. The local FBI hijacking squad is having a tough time cracking the coffee capers. Frets the squad's boss: "One bean looks like another." But we tell you, Chief, if Yuban these hijackers, this penny-Savarin country, which is Chock full o' coffee Nuts, will sigh a mighty Sanka...
...lower wages than Americans; their average hourly rate is often one-third or more below the standard. U.S. officials have found farm laborers in the West who were paid $15 a week. Unscrupulous employers threaten to turn over the illegals to the INS if they complain. Kickbacks to the boss are commonplace; migrant workers often bed down in open fields. "We live the life of a concentration camp," says an illegal Mexican in California. "It is cruel here, but one can at least...
...humanitarian. He is interested in the banality, not the poverty, of the proletariat. His politics consist almost solely in enunciating that banality and its causes for a politically naive audience. In that respect, Mother Kusterstells a typical Fassbinder story. A man has gone berserk in a factory, killing his boss's son and then killing himself. The press exploits his family and distorts the picture of the man. His wife (Mother Kusters, played by Brigitte Mira), deserted by her children, seeks comfort where she can find it. First, with the Thalmanns, a couple of armchair communists who ask Mother...
...Very few students work 90 hours a week; the average student works between 12 and 13 hours a day over a six day week. Each student is self-employed; no students are employees. No student works for Southwestern; none gets "paid" by Southwestern; none has a "boss." Each student is an independent businessperson, and pays self-employment taxes. Southwestern is a publisher, supplying products at wholesale prices to these student retail businesspeople...
...Civil] War is history," said Spain's Communist Party Boss Santiago Carrillo. He was addressing the party's 152-member Central Committee, which last week met on Spanish soil for the first time in 38 years. In perhaps his most daring move since becoming head of Spain's second post-Franco government nine months ago, reform-minded Premier Adolfo Suarez had legalized the Communist Party, declaring it qualified to participate in the national elections set last week for June...