Word: bossing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...harmonica and belted out Casey Jones and Dixie in a gravelly baritone. The crowd loved it. One reason, perhaps, was that Maddox's fellow songster and guitar accompanist was Bobby Lee Fears, a black ex-convict. Fears worked as a busboy and dishwasher for Maddox until his boss's restaurant went under. The duo's first big-time booking will be an appearance on NBC's series of Laugh-In specials, scheduled to begin late this year. Says Maddox of the act: "It's just two people knowing each other and working toward the same...
...last week to receive an honorary degree, and so was Federal Reserve Board Chairman Arthur Burns. When Burns' name was called, Carter did more than just join in the general applause, as he had for the others. He got up and walked to the podium with the patrician boss of the Fed. There, grinning broadly, the populist Chief Executive pointedly shook hands with the rock-ribbed Republican central banker and, clasping his shoulder, offered his congratulations...
Burns, at 73, is in an interesting and incongruous position of power. As Federal Reserve boss, he is at the controls of monetary policy, which is the key to the pace of the nation's economic recovery, and thus has enormous influence on jobs, prices, profits-and, ultimately, politics. What is intriguing is that he now wields this power in a Washington ruled by a Democratic Administration that suddenly finds him and his tight-fisted ways essential to its goals...
...Couple. Even more galling to many Democrats are the stories that Carter has decided to reappoint Burns Federal Reserve chairman when his second four-year term expires in January. Press Secretary Jody Powell says that his boss has not even begun to consider the succession at the Federal Reserve. But liberals, who want one of their own at the nation's central bank, are unconvinced...
...these two adversaries down in a Mediterranean villa and proceeds to complicate an already tangled web. Firman's task is to feed Krom a diet of "truth, rubbish and half-truth" that will leave his interrogator totally befuddled and, most important, hide the identity of Firman's boss: Mat Williamson, a Fiji-born financial wizard who can be terminally mean when his interests are threatened. While Firman tries to bamboozle the professor and his two academic assistants, Williamson decides to hasten things by killing everyone involved...