Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Their first job will be to hold their boss in check. Says one Ford aide of the President: "His instincts are to travel a lot. He's combative and competitive. To him, politics is a body sport. But he's also rational. He knows what happens when he travels all the time. We've gone through periods when we were really flapping." What also happens, as Ford sadly realizes, is that the more he stumps, the lower his ratings drop in the polls, because of his plodding style...
...driver, Agent Thomas Moten, to take care of the matter. Having served on Hoover's personal staff, Moten did as he had done in the past: asked the exhibit section to help out. When Kelley asked Moten how much the valances cost, the chauffeur replied: "What the hell, boss, it was only scrap lumber-forget it." Until last week, Kelley...
...employer, in sympathy with her plight, listed her as fired, thus enabling Caroline to collect $90 a week in unemployment benefits for 65 weeks (in New York, most employees who quit voluntarily are ineligible for jobless benefits). Unemployment officials insisted that she visit prospective employers regularly. But her former boss had deliberately made Caroline difficult to place by saying that her relatively high salary was for work performed as a file clerk instead of a secretary. That suited Caroline fine. Says she: "I needed a vacation. Besides, I got away with it only because my company let me. I just...
...rebuilding the Colts have worked out. One big catch that got away this year was Larry Csonka. He had played for Thomas at Miami, and could have been the answer to Baltimore's shortage of size and experience in the fullback position. Csonka talked with his old boss briefly when he became a free agent last March, but later signed with the New York Giants. The problem, says Thomas unhappily, was Csonka's demand for a guaranteed, no-cut contract. "I just don't give anyone that," he explains. "It's not fair to our players...
...anguish known as accidia or "the dark night of the soul." But even when grace is given, as Bharati reads the situation, the Christian mystic must dissemble his experience through a series of tricky theological mirrors. He is a sacred maverick who goes straight to the boss over the heads of middle management, and clerical bureaucrats are usually looking to clip his wings...