Word: bosses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...audience approves of Jimmie Blacksmith's opportunism--a way of getting up and beyond the social constraints of white Australia. Tommy Lewis presents a fascinating character, and yet there's something wrong in his eyes. It's nearly impossible to pin down his expression. He is pleasant to his "boss", and yet maybe there's something else there. English is not his language, and hence there is an impenetrable distance, a profound gap in comprehension. It is all pleasantly surreal, this place Australia, so vast and so unnaturally quiet. The Aborigine customs fit it well, the strange crouches, the choreography...
Teachers and custodial staff would not answer any questions. "I'm not going to make any comment," one teacher said as she left the building. "I got a letter from my boss that said he'll be the one doing all the talking...
...Communist Party was undergoing its own housecleaning. In a continuing purge, Radio and Television Chief Jozef Barecki was sacked just four weeks after replacing his disgraced predecessor, Maciej Szczepanski, still under investigation for embezzlement. Barecki's apparent sin: years of loyal service to discredited ex-Party Boss Edward Gierek. Further changes were expected. Warsaw's new leader, Stanislaw Kania, continued to shape his own administration. Said Interpress Director Miroslaw Wojciechowski: "The situation is new. It demands new faces, new attitudes. It is a question of democracy within the party...
Summa's new boss has organized the remaining properties in three broad groups-hotels and casinos, aircraft construction and real estate. Lummis hired Phil Hannifin, former chairman of the Nevada gaming-control board, to run the company's hotels and casinos. Hannifin's first project: to finish a $55 million overhaul of the dilapidated Desert Inn, where Hughes had lived as a recluse for four years. Jack Real, a former Lockheed executive, was put in charge of Hughes Helicopters. The company, which lost money in the early '70s, is now in the black, and Real expects...
...Executive Vice President Jerome Jacobson departed. Jacobson's replacement as a vice president and chief corporate planner is Mary E. Cunningham, 29, a striking blond who joined Bendix just 15 months ago as Agee's executive assistant. A Wellesley College magna cum laude graduate and, like her boss, the holder of a Harvard M.B.A., she has emerged as the chairman's top adviser...