Word: bossing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What had been discussed when Cernik and Party Boss Dubcek journeyed to Moscow for a Kremlin conference the week before? "No question that could sow distrust was at stake. The role of the Soviet Union has been much overplayed." Were the "military maneuvers" of the Russian army in Poland over? "Why don't you ask the Poles?" Cernik insisted that Czechoslovakia would never alter its ties to Russia, but added: "We think we can contribute to the dismantling of the cold war." Cernik and Sik made plain that investments by the capitalist world would henceforth be welcome, announced that...
...knew enough about automobiles to do her job. "I would tell them I was the adjuster and they'd ask again for the real adjuster. They just couldn't believe it." Many men, and most women, also do not like the idea of reporting to a female boss. Says John Hancock's Joan Keenan: "It's difficult for a man to accept the idea of reporting to a woman at work. He does that at home, and that's enough...
...least one day a week, TV Boss Harlech switches media to the cinema, fulfilling duties that make his signature mandatory on every film shown in Britain. As a censor, he complains, "You get criticized no matter what you do." In fact, Britain picks as its censors men whose judgments are unlikely to attract criticism, and Harlech has come in for little of it from either the public or the industry. No film buff, he views only the films that his staff screens out as controversial, recently decreed minor cuts in Ulysses and Fanny Hill...
...aviation. Lindbergh's flight pointed up aviation's expanding potential, and Trippe's little business eventually grew into Pan American World Airways, the world's largest international airline. Last week in Manhattan, when Trippe, now 68, finally bowed out as Pan Am's boss, it seemed altogether fitting that Lindbergh, long a Pan Am technical consultant and now one of its directors, was on hand for the occasion...
...minute speech on company finances. When 62-year-old President Harold E. Gray, his hand-picked successor as Pan Am's chairman and chief executive officer, began to praise him, Trippe abruptly ruled him out of order. Sighed Gray: "I seldom defy the boss...