Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tanzania this week for a meeting with African leaders in Dar es Salaam. Two weeks later, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance will visit the Middle East in hopes of setting in motion Arab-Israeli peace talks. He may also go to Moscow in March to meet with Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev...
...spartan living himself -he buys a new Rolls-Royce every year and maintains a yacht in Majorca -Laker keeps his business operation lean. A staff of fewer than 20 works out of a modest ten-room block at London's Gatwick Airport, where the boss's own office measures a mere 10 ft. by 12ft...
...octogenarian Sunday painter's first one-man show, and it opened, appropriately, at the center for labor studies in suburban Washington, D.C., named after George Meany (see BUSINESS & ECONOMY). The gruff AFL-CIO boss began dabbling with a paint-by-numbers set 21 years ago, and was soon devoting an hour a day to landscapes and still lifes of his own. He got the idea for Bermuda Race from a newspaper photo; Merry Christmas was inspired by a clown on a greeting card. One red, yellow and blue abstract dubbed Unfilled originated as a doodle. Meany confessed that...
...painfully nice Atlanta schoolteacher (Gladys Knight) journeys to Alaska in pursuit of her ex-husband (Barry Hankerson), who has been enjoying the high wages and low life that go with working on the pipeline. His boss is a sneering meanie who owns half the town, runs a prostitute colony on the side and periodically sabotages construction work in order to prolong the rake-offs he and his colleagues are taking...
Cheerful Smile. The teacher stands up to the boss and wins back her man, but not before making moral weather as heavy as a tundra blizzard out of it. "Like a lot of people, I came up here chasing a dream," she says. "Unlike a lot of people, I won't sell my soul...