Word: bossed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Cheryl Tatum, a cashier at a Hyatt hotel in Crystal City, Va., braided her hair into cornrows last year, she received nothing but compliments from customers. She received something else from her boss: notice that she was not complying with hotel policy against "extreme and unusual hairstyles." After being dismissed, Tatum filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, thus marking what may be the first discrimination case based on hair. Tatum has since enlisted the aid of Jesse Jackson, who has promised not to stay in the chain's hotels during his presidential campaign unless the dispute...
Hungary's economic woes have been tied to a period of political stagnation under Party Boss Janos Kadar, 75. Last week's parliamentary debate, however, threw the spotlight on a younger, more dynamic figure: Prime Minister Karoly Grosz, 57, the former Budapest party leader, who assumed the post only two months ago. "Time is pressing. We cannot wait. We have to act," Grosz declared to loud applause from the 340 assembled Deputies. His performance fed speculation that he is the leading candidate to succeed Kadar, who has held power for 31 years...
...doing so. He is Warren H. Phillips, chairman and chief executive of the parent Dow Jones & Co., a low-keyed fellow who in his own eight years as managing editor of the Journal discovered that managing editors simply disregard the elephant of the editorial page. Yet as the boss, he encourages such somber trumpetings as a recent editorial branding the President's peace initiation as "Reagan's Bay , of Pigs." ("Barring some dramatic event, Nicaragua was lost once and for all to the Communist empire...
...last year at the chic Grand Hotel du Cap on the French Riviera, where he was to meet Cosby, who vacations there each summer. Checking into his room, Leonard ordered the bellman, who had his head ducked down, to put away the luggage. The distinctly un-French reply: ! "Yassuh, boss. I be puttin' it up." It was Cosby in the bellman's uniform...
Agrokomerc, like most industrial enterprises in Yugoslavia, was in effect the personal fiefdom of the local Communist Party chief. In this case the boss was Fikret Abdic, 48, one of the most influential figures in the northwestern republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina, and the firm's chief executive since 1967. Stout and graying, Abdic ruled Agrokomerc in imperial style, often issuing $ directives from a villa on the Adriatic coast, to which he commuted, attended by secretaries and bodyguards, in a customized...