Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eyes can increase productivity up to 30%. Says Marvin Dainoff, professor of psychology at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio: "If you provide people with the proper tools, they're going to be more efficient." In that sense, what is good for the worker may prove even better for the boss...
...does things that are mistakes that he might have to pay for." Is Spinks afraid? "Sure, I've got to have my fear," he says. "I refuse to go into the ring without it." But he also says, "I have a nice grip on my pride: I boss it around. I wear it when I should. I throw it in the corner when I don't need it." He'll need it sometime Monday night...
...choose Moscow's delegation two weeks ago, Ivanov was confirmed as a delegate despite the Ogonyok attack, while the passionate playwright Gelman was not. There and elsewhere Gorbachev has shown a well-tuned instinct for the safe middle ground. When he dumped Yeltsin, the pro-perestroika Moscow party boss, from the Politburo earlier this year, Gorbachev was protecting one flank. When he later chastised Yegor Ligachev, a Politburo member regarded as the country's leading conservative, Gorbachev was guarding the other flank. "Left-wing phrasemaking is the wrong medicine," Gorbachev said during the meeting to select Moscow's conference delegation...
...Department's criminal division, and Deputy Attorney General Arnold Burns. Both officials resigned from their posts in late March, after maintaining that Attorney General Meese may have violated conflict-of- interest laws. Word of the inquiry was kept away from Meese until just before Burns left. The reason: their boss was mentioned in one taped conversation between suspects in the probe. Only after investigators were satisfied that Meese was not implicated did Burns brief the Attorney General...
...pending indictments. But one revealing warrant in St. Louis provided a glimpse of the type of cases the investigators are developing. The target was Paisley, a veteran Boeing Co. official hired by Lehman in 1981 as his top procurement aide. Paisley was a tough administrator who laudably joined his boss in trying to shake up the Navy's cozy relationship with contractors. He quit in April 1987, just before a new law went into effect barring Defense procurement officials from having business relationships with the department for two years after their departure. Paisley set up his consulting office in Washington...