Word: bosses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meantime, the government continued its sporadic purge of corrupt or overly hard-line officials. Party Boss Stanislaw Kania has replaced 19 of the 49 provincial first secretaries. Several provincial governors have been sacked, including one who was under fire from Solidarity. A Roman Catholic member of Parliament, Jerzy Ozdowski, 55, was promoted to Deputy Prime Minister. Although Ozdowski is not active in church affairs, his appointment should impress Poland's enormous Catholic community...
...said no: the President-elect had resolved not to consult with any foreign leaders before his inauguration. But when West German Ambassador Peter Hermes phoned the Jackson Place town house Wednesday morning once again to propose a meeting, Reagan's chief foreign policy adviser, Richard Allen, concluded his boss could not refuse a call from a head of government who was staying a mere four houses away-especially since Reagan is eager to strengthen ties with the U.S.'s European allies...
...self-assured brunet, was discovered to have spent a weekend at one of the royal residences. The press descended en masse on the Chelsea travel agency where she worked. "Get rid of them and don't come back at all if you can't," warned her angry boss. Said a relative afterward: "It was as if she had been found guilty of some ghastly sexual crime or murder or robbery...
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...pronounced o-la-yan) started work in 1937 as a dispatcher for an organization that became the Arabian American Oil Co. and used his excellent English, learned in high school in Bahrain, to make himself invaluable. In time he was negotiating land rights for Aramco and accompanying its resident boss on visits to the Saudi royal court. In 1947, when Aramco began a major pipeline project, Olayan was asked to become a contractor. He mortgaged his house for $8,000, bought four trucks...