Word: bosses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...presidential party seemed to be reflecting the exuberant mood of its boss. Still flying high from his pre-vacation triumphs in enacting his budget and tax cuts, a competitive Reagan seemed eager to take on all those who doubt that he can slash taxes, rebuild U.S. military might, check inflation, bring down interest rates and balance the federal budget by 1984. Stopping off in Chicago for a Republican Party fund-raising dinner, the President almost shouted as he promised to whack another $70 billion from federal spending in fiscal 1983 and 1984. "We are going to do it," he declared...
...performance was vintage Ronald Reagan: a laughing anecdote about how he had almost dropped a pickax on the feet of his boss on a youthful summer construction job; a wry translation of status quo as "Latin for 'the mess we're in' "; a visionary proclamation of "an American Renaissance" of high employment and low inflation. But the audience was as cool as any Reagan has played to as President. It gave him about the minimum of tepid applause required by politeness and respect to his office...
...Central Committee, mindful of Moscow's warning that Poland should not resort to "non-Leninist" means in trying to solve its economic problems, is taking a fairly hard line on the subject. Insisting that the state would not give up its right to choose managers, Party Boss Stanislaw Kania warned Solidarity that the government would use "any means necessary to defend socialism." The Central Committee seemed ready, however, to offer two concessions: 1) the state would be prepared to select directors from lists of candidates submitted by workers' councils; and 2) the workers' councils of "smaller enterprises...
...America, sit in a tight row, huddled over their humming machines, monitored by a stocky Hispanic woman with a shock of bright orange-red hair. On a nearby desk rests a broken time clock. The workers were not paid last week; they may not be paid this week. The boss will pay them when she has the money. Mañana. Perhaps tomorrow...
Never before had Pan American World Airways tapped the head of another airline to be its boss. But this week C. Edward Acker, 52, chairman of Miami-based Air Florida, will take over as Pan Am chairman. He succeeds William T. Seawell, 63, who in July announced his early retirement...