Word: bosses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Austin Ranney, senior political scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, finds immense irony in this development. "One of the great reasons for reform from the very beginning was to get away from patronage, so delegates would not be beholden to the old bosses," he says. Ranney now fears that all of the electoral reforms have not prevented the beholden of a different kind from entering through a "back door" of the convention. Since there are no longer power centers like Chicago's late Mayor Richard Daley, and only 69 Senators, Governors and members of the House were delegates this...
...mounting wave of labor unrest started eight weeks ago with a series of scattered strikes protesting a sudden rise in meat prices, which have been kept artificially low by costly government subsidies. Shunning the brutal crackdown that had caused Gomulka's downfall, the government of Party Boss Edward Gierek had already granted some $117 million to other strikers during the first wave of protest. It refused, however, to roll back the price of meat. The situation took a dramatic turn two weeks ago, when 16,000 employees of the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk suddenly walked off the job and seized...
Getting there was only half the fun for Carter's political operatives. Once established in New York City, they confronted the mission impossible of making everything seem to work to the advantage of their boss-and to have everything that did work happen in prime time...
...mother in Israel with a son in the army may ask her self some concerned questions, Sharon added. An angry Begin reportedly responded that the minister was "a danger to democracy." At a quarrelsome Sunday Cabinet meeting two weeks ago, other ministers eventually forced Sharon to apologize to his boss. Sharon has said that he will not resign his own post, which gives him primary authority over the establishment of Israeli settlements in the occupied territories, unless Begin makes someone else Defense Minister. But since Sharon's resignation could bring down Begin's fragile coalition and force...
...nether world of the chronically unemployed minorities, almost every major city has a place where the day laborers gather before sunrise in hope of being tapped by a construction foreman or work boss for a day's worth of heavy lifting. When the economy slumps, so does the need for such men. But often it is the only work available...