Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Meyers "in-the-face" driving lay-up with a nifty two-hand set shot from downtown en route to an eight-point first half. Bok saw the roundball on severla occasions, thanks to the generous passing of subordinate Wyatt, who, like any aspiring Veep, shoveled it to his boss continually...
Even in Las Vegas, a town not noted for softies, Al Bramlet, 59, stood out as mean. The high-living, free-spending boss of Local 226 of the Culinary Workers Union, which represents 22,000 employees in Nevada's casino hotels and restaurants, Bramlet made enemies as effortlessly as gamblers throw dice. Following a strike last March, his own rank and file accused him of selling out to employers with sweetheart contracts. Other union chiefs despised him as a double-crosser. Establishments that resisted his organizers had fire-bomb problems. But like Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa, Bramlet...
During his two-year stint as a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry near Munich, Robert Gullis, 27, impressed his boss as "probably the most diligent man I've ever known." Indeed, the results of the young British scientist's experiments on the effects of opiates on nervelike cells were notable enough to be published in several journals, including Nature. Now Nature has printed another communication by Gullis: a letter admitting that his results were fraudulent-"mere figments of my imagination...
When agents turned up at Episcopal headquarters, Bishop Milton Wood, chief aide to Presiding Bishop John Allin, let them examine commission files and test church typewriters. Later the two bishops provided other material, figuring it was public information. Meanwhile the grand jury summoned Nemikin and her boss, Hispanic Commission Director Maria Cueto. Both refused to testify, on grounds of religious liberty, but a federal district court denied the claim. Though the national church is paying the two women's legal fees, it is not backing their refusal to testify. This week Maria Cueto is likely to join Raisa Nemikin...
...Angeles. In 1937, Anderson made what was supposed to be a one-shot appearance on the Benny broadcast; the audience loved his drollery, and he became a member of the cast. Anderson constantly deflated Benny's pomposity with a high-pitched, incredulous, "What's that, boss...