Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nader's Public Citizen Congress Watch, the congressional Black Caucus and other groups. But Carter was caught in a crossfire from most of organized labor, which wanted Dunlop. At one point, Carter aides asked AFL-CIO officials to suggest alternatives to Dunlop who would be acceptable to Labor Boss...
Bell's probable appointment seems to indicate that Carter has reverted to the more traditional practice of choosing as Attorney General a man who may be counted upon not to take policy stands in opposition to his boss. The choice, however, is likely to meet some resistance. Though Carter apparently had Bell in mind from the beginning, he permitted a number of others to think they were in the running, including Congresswoman Barbara Jordan; Burke Marshall, Assistant Attorney General in the Kennedy Administration; John Doar, counsel for the House of Representatives during the impeachment proceedings; U.S. Court of Appeals...
...native parts, Bell is esteemed as a good lawyer and an even better organizer with a quiet, can-do style. Born in Americus, Ga., a mere ten miles from Plains, Bell is a Baptist, like his new boss. Also like Carter, he isa country boy who made good. After attending Georgia Southwestern College and Mercer University Law School, he eventually joined a prestigious Atlanta firm. In 1960, he served as co-chairman of John Kennedy's Georgia campaign. After the election, he was appointed to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals...
...that Ford Administration bureaucrats responded altogether too strongly to White House pressure to hold down the budget. Okun believes that departments and agencies estimated their spending at the highest levels foreseeable−which in fact were not met−to avoid any chance of having to apologize to the boss for overrunning their targets. There were also some mechanical delays in handing out federal contracts. For a while, some economists believed that the money not spent in 1976 would flow out in 1977, lessening the need for stimulus, but the prevailing belief now is that no such thing will happen...
...Siciliano. As it turned out, however, Graziella had been forcibly rescued by some of her husband's friends. Apparently the kidnapers were younger Mafiosi, who in recent years have grown markedly disrespectful of their elders' feelings. Even the favored nephew of Giuseppe Garda ("Don Peppino"), the boss of Monreale and an associate of Quartuccio's, was kidnaped in 1974 and ransomed for $1.5 million. To Sicilian police, the wave of killings suggested that the dons were at last losing patience with the punks...