Word: bosses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Muskie is unapologetic. "If you're going to shift course," he explains, "you ought to take your friends on the Hill into your confidence. We thought it important he learn that lesson early." But Muskie says he genuinely likes his boss-to-be. "He's got a good mind. He works hard. He doesn't deserve all the harsh treatment he gets. Our personal relationship has always been pleasant...
...meeting that Schmidt was going to have with East German Communist Party Boss Erich Honecker to discuss expanded trade and access by West Germans to East Germany. Another benefit of détente that Bonn does not want to lose is the arrangement that during the past decade has permitted some 250,000 ethnic Germans, mainly in the U.S.S.R. and Poland, to be repatriated to West Germany...
...board of officers is gathered awaiting the arrival of P.S. du Pont, their president. His absence is baffling. He is punctilious about company matters, and he never misses a board meeting. The officers begin to speculate that perhaps the influenza epidemic or a terrible accident has stricken the boss. He, in fact, is missing the meeting to be at the sick bed of his chauffeur--his only true friend. Mosley contrasts P.S.'s affection for his servant with his marked coldness toward his wife. P.S. is the first of many du Ponts in the book whose friendships and love-lives...
...case before the court was brought by two assistant public defenders from Rockland County, N.Y., both Republicans. When a Democrat was appointed as their boss in 1978, he tried to replace them with members of his own party. The former test, developed in the 1976 decision Elrod vs. Burns, permitted dismissal of employees who held policy-making or confidential positions. The court ruled last week, however, that under the First Amendment's protection of the freedoms of belief and association, a public employee cannot be fired for partisan reasons unless "party affiliation is an appropriate requirement for the effective...
...twenties and thirties saw the scandalously corrupt reign of cement baron and political boss Tom Pendergast, when Kansas City thrived on a depression economy of gambling, prostitution, and bootleg booze. Ricker establishes early on the pointlessness of trying to recapture that milieu: Big Joe Turner sings "I was standing on the corner of 18th and Vine," and he shows us the barren parking lot that now occupies this intersection, once crowded with nightspots. He succeeds in capturing the unique camraderie that still exists among the men who made the Kansas City sound nearly 50 years...