Word: bossed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...governing again, it must embrace unified and politically acceptable positions, watched it succumb to yet more division. Many supporters echoed the hopes of John Edmonds, head of the General Municipal Boilermakers and Allied Trades Union, that Kinnock "has won the party by his speech." But another senior union boss warned, "If Neil retreats from the gunfire of Todd and drops any part of his reform program, he'll be out as leader. Not tomorrow, not next week or next month. But before the next election...
...note series. The working-class ambience doesn't have the authenticity of The Honeymooners or the bite of All in the Family. And Barr, a veteran of comedy clubs, grins at too many of her own jokes. With its surefire time period (following ABC's hit Who's the Boss?), the show stands a good chance of success, but the days of whine and Roseanne could soon grow tiresome...
Estonia's Communist Party boss Vayno Vyalyas gamely sat in on the congress, evidently considering it riskier to suppress the movement than to try co- opting it, especially since one-fifth of the 60,000 who elected the delegates are Communists. Declared Vyalyas: "This is an example of socialist pluralism." And how. Estonia has already announced that its clocks will no longer be forceably aligned with Moscow's, but will line up with neutral Finland, one hour farther west...
...colonial and the Italian heritage fuse on these narrow streets: Paul Revere's house in North Square is just doors away from a mouthwatering Italian restaurant. A bit further down the street stands the one-time home of "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald, a powerful Boston political boss almost a century ago, and birthplace of Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (mother of John, Robert, and Edward). Across the street is the site of Gov. Thomas Hutchinson's house, where angry colonists protested...
...three days a week. Other companies adjust hours on a case-by-case basis. At Stride Rite, comptroller Nancy Cirigliano varied her schedule last December when her father was hospitalized, coming in late some days and leaving early on others. Says she: "My boss said, 'Don't even ask.' He understood...