Word: bossing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...GOVERNMENT OF THE POOR. He has bid for the votes of the 620,000 soldiers and 220,000 civil servants by granting them 15% raises. His ally, National Police Chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan, is using his own persuasive powers among the provincial chiefs, and the boss of the pacification program is doubling as Ky's campaign manager. Government censors, controlled by Ky, play up news about him while playing down Thieu...
...Strouse. Last week Thompson's board of directors elected a fourth. Strouse, who has held the job for seven years, will retain his title of chairman, but he will give up day-to-day details to devote himself to long-range planning and industry speechmaking. Succeeding him as boss of the biggest: broad-shouldered Dan Seymour, 53, who has been JWT's president for the past three years...
...hard-bitten, aggressive story-mongering of real journalism), or actors (all the back-biting, trauma and brilliance of the real stage), or writing (all the intense competition, as well as talent, of literary circles beyond Cambridge). Students generally favored roles which would allow them to be their own boss--at college and, even more importantly, in careers afterward. More went to law and medical schools than ever before. Also increasing was the number going on to graduate school and into academia, where employees (after they reached a certain level) could plan their courses, writing, and lecturing as they pleased...
...basic reasons. One, to maintain independence. If you have worked in more than one locus successfully, if you have more than one professional home, so to speak, you are not solely dependent on your current job to survive. You don't depend unwhole-somely on that one boss, on that next efficiency report, or on defending the status quo of that one department or agency. You can quit tomorrow if you want or need to, with a place to go, without being deterred by worry about where your next paycheck or your next opportunity is going to come from. This...
...fistful of medals, from the Purple Heart to the Distinguished Flying Cross. Since then, he has had some of the toughest jobs in the Navy, including commander of the Seventh Fleet and, most recently, the tricky triple-hatted post of unified commander of all troops in the Atlantic area, boss of all Atlantic naval ships and planes, and NATO's Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic. For years fellow officers have predicted that Moorer, 55, would be a likely choice some day for Chief of Naval Operations. Last week the four-star admiral finally arrived. President Johnson announced that he would...