Word: bosses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...country's Foreign Minister for the past 28 years, was raised to the prestigious but largely ceremonial post of President, a position that had been vacant since the death of Konstantin Chernenko on March 10. Immediately thereafter, the Foreign Ministry passed into the untried hands of Eduard Shevardnadze, party boss of the southern Soviet republic of Georgia...
What has most impressed Western analysts has been the speed at which Gorbachev's changes have occurred. Indeed, that may prove to be a hallmark of the Gorbachev era. The party boss showed the same kind of decisiveness in April, when he suddenly increased his control over the Politburo. At the % time, he served notice that "revolutionary changes" would be the order...
According to United Farmworkers Official Lupe Sanchez, who tells the story, the crew boss came up with a proposition: "Suppose I just give you five of them every week, and you don't have to do any running or get your boots muddy...
...little peculiar, the border guards thought, but why not go along with somebody who wants to help out the law? Then the crew boss went to his workers, explained the deal and said everyone would make more money if work did not have to be interrupted by raids. So the workers drew lots once a week to pick the five who would have to be shipped back to the Mexican border. Before the five victims left, though, the hat was passed for funds to help the unlucky five sneak back north across the border, a trip that usually started...
...would not matter"). But by 1979 ! his wife Guadelupe advised him that prospects for founding a business or even earning a living wage in Michoacan were nil, so Guillermo brought Guadelupe and their four children to join him in Seattle. Today he earns $400 a month from a boss who deducts $250 for rent on a ramshackle apartment that the boss owns. Somehow, though, Guillermo is saving money to buy a sewing machine and once more dreams of going into business for himself. Marvels Guillermo: "Me, a businessman in America...