Word: bosses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Boston chapter, O'Donnell "always had a sense I was doing something very valid, that I was making a contribution. But it was constantly undermined, worn away on a day-to-day basis. Every mistake that a secretary makes, such as a typo, is very obvious--and a boss can use that to put you in your place if he wants...
...Warsaw, meanwhile, newly installed Party Boss Stanislaw Kania moved to restore public confidence and cope with the country's awesome economic problems (see box). Scrapping the economic plan of deposed Party Boss Edward Gierek, the new regime announced that it would slash its 1980 budget by $400 million, mainly from the investment sector, in order to help fund the pay raises that the workers have been promised. Fulfilling another pledge it had made to the strikers, the government this week prepared to resume regular radio broadcasts of the Roman Catholic Sunday Mass, for the first time since the Communists...
...optimistic about the prospects for economic and political reforms. Conscious of their new-found power, the workers felt they probably could meet any attempt by the government to renege on the basic concessions with renewed strikes. The implicit threat was not lost on the authorities. Said Tadeusz Fiszbach, party boss in the Gdansk area: "Only cooperation with the new unions will make our survival possible in a difficult situation...
...stern disciplinarian. If you cut classes, for example, you had to take study hall in his office at 4 a.m. You had to be there waiting for him when he got to work. Nobody wanted to do that. He was frightening. He was the boss, the main man, the leader. You looked forward to getting away from him. Every time I got called to the coach's office, it was, "Oh, damn, what did I do? I didn't do anything, did I?" And then he'd just want to say goodbye before I went home...
DIED. Josephine Hoffa, 62, wife of James R. Hoffa, former Teamsters union boss who has been missing and presumed murdered since July 30, 1975; of a heart attack; in Detroit. Said Mrs. Hoffa in a poignant 1976 interview with the Detroit News: "I've got to find out what happened to my man. Other women lose their husbands. They at least have comfort in knowing where they died and are buried...