Word: bossing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wear a delegate badge, five people stop you before you can get across the hotel lobby, and every one of them asks, 'What are you gonna do?' In the whole convention process now, more and more influences are reaching the delegates, moving them farther from the old boss system." Kaler argues that this must bring the outcome "pretty close to what the people want...
However generous Russia's gesture, the Czechoslovaks were still very much under pressure-and not likely to welcome their guests with any brass bands. The Russians' mission is nothing less than to force the Czechoslovaks to forsake the democratic reforms that Party Boss Alexander Dubček has brought to the country over the past seven months. Moscow claims that the liberalization is paving the way for subversion and counterrevolution and weakening a keystone in the entire Warsaw Defense Pact structure. The Russian talks with Prague's leaders may well determine whether democracy will have any future...
...under coming reforms. Nevertheless, his removal was a victory not only for the Russians but also for the conservatives in Prague whom Moscow would like to see unseat Dubček. For Prchlik was the general who had prevented a January coup by army units loyal to ex-party Boss Antonin Novotný, the Stalinist that Dubček bounced from office...
...Congolese army sergeant is up tight. "To you, this is just a piece of real estate called the Congo," he snarls at his boss, a commander of mercenaries. "But to me it's our Bunker Hill...
...made it a tantalizing, if so far highly elusive, takeover prospect (latest suitor: Gulf & Western). In the first half of 1968, profits fell 44% from last year's first half (also poor) to a bare $4.6 million on sales of $416 million. Said the company's beleaguered boss, Robert L. Stevenson: "Steps are being taken...