Word: bossing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chivas for your Aunt Minnie who belongs to the Women's Christian Temperance Union and then visit her house a lot. (Got anything to drink? Why, lookee here! Haw, Haw, Haw!) Assuming no one is really that crass, it's best to reserve bottle gifts for people like your boss, your roommates or the police man who let you off the hook when you were doing 75 down Main Street this Thanksgiving. Of course, there's no reason not to give yourself a little flagon of cheer this Christmas. After what you spend on gifts it'll be about...
Says she: "My concern has been for people who are unable to provide for their own needs and who have been disadvantaged by this society." She does not see "any problems with the ability of the Secretary of HUD to administer the programs." As for her boss, she says: "I do not know what the President's final decision will be with the HUD programs. I do fight. I always do, of course...
...Soviet Boss Leonid Brezhnev chose to become involved himself last week. In an unusual front-page Pravda statement, Brezhnev declared: "It should be clear that any interference, especially military interference, in the affairs of Iran, a state that borders directly on the Soviet Union, would be regarded by the U.S.S.R. as affecting the interests of its security." That warning, aimed directly at the U.S., startled and annoyed American officials. After a hasty Sunday meeting, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance issued a statement saying that "the U.S. does not intend to intervene in the internal affairs of any country." Then Vance...
...battles have ended in victory. She tried and failed to persuade her boss, Transportation Secretary Brock Adams, to make air bags mandatory in all new cars beginning in 1981 but had to settle for a 1982 to 1984 deadline. Claybrook later lost out even more embarrassingly in her attempt to tighten braking standards for tractor-trailers. She was testifying before a congressional committee on her opinion even as Adams was disagreeing with her at a press conference...
...Africa's ruling National Party been forced to resign in disgrace. Last week the spreading scandal over misuse of a secret multimillion-dollar slush fund within the now disbanded Department of Information claimed its first major victim: Cornelius P. ("Connie") Mulder, 53, powerful Minister of Plural Relations and Nationalist boss of South Africa's huge Transvaal province. Bowing to pressure from his party colleagues, Mulder reluctantly resigned from his euphemistically named Cabinet post, where he administered the apartheid laws that govern the lives of South Africa's 18.5 million blacks. Said Mulder: "I have no remorse in my soul about...