Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first memorandum, Carter wrote across the top of it: "Proceed and be bold." Watson really liked that. And Carter knew his man. As the President-elect's principal in Washington for the next ten weeks-and probably a lot longer-the bold Jack Watson will certainly take the boss's advice...
...pinpointed "good judgment." Said he: "We can have someone with wonderful traits. If his judgment is poor, the net results are going to be bad." Some noted that a leader showed his judgment in selecting as lieutenants people who either complemented his own skills or were smarter than the boss...
...summer protests marked the third time in two decades that insurgent workers had illegally struck against unpopular government measures and won their case. Workers' demonstrations in 1956 and 1970 had even brought down the reigning party chiefs in Warsaw. This time, the present Polish party boss, Edward Gierek, survived the riots by immediately rolling back prices. Still, lingering discontent in Poland, tied to a worsening economic crisis, has produced the classic formula for rebellion. TIME Correspondent Henry Muller recently visited Poland to gauge the public mood as the nation entered what threatens to be a long turbulent winter...
...designed to attract mainstream businessmen, but then, that is not a group the Communist Party has ever sought to enlist. Hall, who ran for election in 1972, was originally a mine worker in Minnesota, and one of his most notable campaign slogans is, "You wouldn't elect your boss as shop steward. Why elect his stooge to public office...
...There isn't a thing in that building that Cy Harris didn't kick at least once," says Johnson. "If he wanted it heavier, he got it. He was the boss, and my approach from the start was that if anyone was going to be exiled to Argentina in the morning, it was going to be him, not me." Harris is not going anyplace, except in triumph to Salt Lake City and Bombay to work on new concert halls...