Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hopkins case has arrived at the high court at around the same time a related but different dispute may be heading toward a courtroom in Florida. Until recently, Brenda Taylor was an assistant state attorney in Broward County, Fla. But earlier this year she was reprimanded by her boss, John Countryman, because of the clothes she favored for court appearances. Taylor, 25, has a penchant for short skirts, designer blouses, ornate jewelry and spike heels with colored hosiery. She says she has a flair for fashion. Countryman told her she looked like a "bimbo." In September, after Taylor complained...
THINGS CHANGE. Don Ameche is an aging artisan mistaken for a Mafia boss, and Joe Mantegna the gangland gofer who helps an old man come alive. David Mamet directed and co-wrote this beguiling men's club anecdote...
...Columbia Business School. Moreover, Kravis had previously spoken to Johnson about a buyout of RJR Nabisco. Now it seemed to Kravis that Cohen was trying to steal the deal. Actually, Johnson had brought the idea to a trusted friend: James Robinson III, chairman of American Express and Cohen's boss...
...also felt ignored by their corporate parent. After the 1986 merger of the Burroughs and Sperry computer companies that produced Unisys, corporate headquarters decreed in a confidential memo that "ancillary" units would be put on the auction block. Reinhold Tischler, then president of the Nu-kote division, called his boss and said, "Ancillary division reporting in. We'd like to buy it." On Jan. 16, 1987 -- Tischler calls it Independence Day -- he and 20 other managers bought Nu-kote for $60 million. After they eliminated several aging product lines, overall sales grew 17% last year, to $150 million...
NEVADA. The press secretary to Nevada Republican Senator Chic Hecht recently observed that his boss is ignored by Senate colleagues except for the times when they are ridiculing him for his syntax-mangling style. With a billing like that from his own publicist, Hecht obviously has problems in his race against Democratic Governor Richard Bryan...