Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...committee's two-month delay in voting on Champion's nomination, however, pointed up the superficial and generally unsatisfactory nature of the Senate confirmation process. In late February, the Finance Committee staff brought out serious allegations of malfeasance on the part of Champion and his boss, HEW Secretary Joseph A. Califano Jr. If true, charges that Califano and Champion tried to impede an HEW investigation of Medicare fraud in California--bowing to pressure from the state's governor and Congressional delegation--should raise questions about their integrity and interpretation of the public interest...
...Mechant que ca (or The Wonderful Crook as its American promoters have inadequately dubbed it) looks strong, clumsy and dumb--like the stereotypical college football star. The opening sequences of the film cut from a shot of Pierre armwrestling with his fellow workers to one of the boss yelling because Pierre is "always playing around" and has lacquered a board that should have remained natural. So, when the foreman calls for Pierre we expect he will be reprimanded and find out instead that the boss is, in fact, Pierre's father, and that Pierre has been called because his father...
That moved Young's boss Jimmy Carter to weigh in with a statement acknowledging the "complexity of the problem." The President made it clear that he "has no desire to seek legislation or to otherwise impose a solution." Nevertheless, Carter's view of "hostage situations" was that the manner of coverage merited "discussion and sober consideration...
...save it from bankruptcy and now owns 95% of its stock, threatened to cut off promised investment funds if management could not end the walkout. Militant Laborite Hugh Scanlon, president of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, which represents the toolmakers, joined Leyland's labor relations boss Pat Lowry to endorse a strikebreaking ultimatum: go back on the job by Monday or get the sack. With reverse English, Tory politicians and press threw their weight behind the strikers. "Union bosses must act for their members, not the government," wrote Tory Employment Spokesman James Prior in the Times...
Died. Al Bramlet, 59, powerful boss of the Las Vegas local of the Culinary Workers Union since 1952; found shot, in a rock pile in the desert, 30 miles from Las Vegas. A wheeler-dealer with enemies even in his own union, Bramlet ran into trouble when he brewed up a new scheme with the Mob to skim money from the union's pension fund. Two weeks after the fund's trustees vetoed the idea, Bramlet disappeared (TIME, March...