Word: bossing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Playing in pain from injuries that have plagued her for several months, sophomore Robin Boss claimed the Northeast regional of the Intercollegiate Tennis Coaches Association (HCA) at Penn Sunday...
...addition to the singles' title, Boss and doubles partner Kathy Vigna claimed the doubles championship. The victories mean that both Boss and Vigna will advance to the HCA national championships in Houston in February...
Politicians like to tell the story about the campaign worker who urges his local party official to rent a sound truck before the election. After numerous pleas, the ward boss relents. Come Election Day, the party captures the White House, Congress and most of the country. At the victory celebrations, the lowly aide rushes up to his superior and says, "What'd I tell ya? It was the truck!" Likewise, the importance of advertising in a political campaign can be exaggerated. But what Reagan did this year was use two sound trucks for the price...
...Motors started out two weeks ago as only a minor nuisance for the giant automaker, but it soon escalated into a major problem. Because of parts shortages caused by the walkout, GM had to lay off 40,965 hourly workers at 30 U.S. plants in ten states. Canadian Union Boss Robert White was demanding that his GM workers receive a bigger wage increase than the one their U.S. counterparts got in their new contract. White, though, was under heavy pressure from United Auto Workers President Owen Bieber to settle the strike quickly. Bieber did not want to see Canadian wages...
...upward mobility as a major feature pays a great deal of attention to manners," says Alan Dundes, a professor of anthropology and folklore at the University of California, Berkeley. "Young people today are concerned with making it, and part of making it is setting the table properly when the boss comes over for dinner. Self-improvement is a big part of the American dream, and learning manners is part of self-improvement." Or as Author-Editor George Plimpton sums it up, "Manners are better because they help you get along and get ahead. All this provides a sense of security...