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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...onto the sidewalk, smashing several parking meters in an escape attempt. It was not an attack. Luckily no pedestrians were injured. Though trying to drive around a roadblock is the worst thing to do - it exposes you to broadside fire - the chauffeur's startled boss gave him a $5,000 bonus and paid for the parking meters. -By Robert C. Wurmstedt

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In West Virginia: Drive for Life | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

...could produce up to 50 kg of heroin a day, worth $7.5 million on the New York wholesale market. The officers also arrested two French chemists, both veterans of the defunct Marseilles laboratories that once were a link in the famed French connection, and the lab's alleged boss, a suspected Mafioso, who was wearing a wig. As it was pulled off, he announced, "Eccomi qui" (Here I am), and then defiantly refused to say another word. Bensinger believes that such raids are at least helping to stem the flow of heroin to the U.S. Said he: "It still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A New and Deadly Menace | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

...experience of Italian immigrants across the country was similar--97 per cent of them got off the boat in New York. Many had been sent for by the Padrone,or labor boss. And the majority were laborers, not skilled professionals...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Late But Not Least | 10/4/1980 | See Source »

...best in the newspaper business. "I don't live in fear of somebody taking a dislike to me and saying, 'Get rid of him.' I have a better job than Fred Silverman--and safer...You've got to add about $150,000 a year onto that--being your own boss--it's great...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: Art Buchwald: Portrait of a Sometimes Unfunny Man | 10/2/1980 | See Source »

...rejects the notion that a secretary is merely an extension of her boss--"to cater to his personal whims and perform his personal errands." But for all its concern with office relationships, the organization's primary focus is economic--it advocates what Snyder terms a doctrine of "comparable worth...

Author: By Geoffrey T. Gibbs, | Title: Continuing the Good Fight | 10/1/1980 | See Source »

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