Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...very embodiment of what they perceive as the media's liberal bias. When Senator Jesse Helms, the right-wing Republican from North Carolina, launched a campaign in 1985 to take over CBS, he urged supporters with pointed glee to buy up CBS stock and "become Dan Rather's boss." Many TV news traditionalists are no fonder of Rather: he is too high-pitched, too image conscious, too well paid...
...Lucasian professor of mathematics, a seat once occupied by Isaac Newton. There, in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, he benevolently reigns over the relativity group, 15 overachieving graduate students from nine countries. On his office door is a small plaque irreverently reading QUIET, PLEASE. THE BOSS IS ASLEEP...
...Electric to tiny subcontractors. As the Pentagon's procurement czar, Costello will buy goods and services worth $170 billion this year. He must also oversee the costs of 2,600 weapons systems, as well as a bewildering variety of research and development projects. "Make no mistake," says Costello's boss, Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci, "Bob is undertaking one of the most demanding assignments in the department...
Blandon was in Washington last week to deliver fresh charges against his former boss. Republican Senator Alfonse D'Amato of New York, co-chairman of the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control, met with Blandon for three hours. D'Amato said afterward that Noriega had apparently used the / Panamanian military to found a "total criminal empire probably as large as any that may exist in the world." According to the Senator, Noriega's activities ranged "from drug running, protection, money laundering and arms trafficking to the illegal sale of passports." D'Amato quickly secured U.S. Marshals Service protection for Blandon...
...Church official while he was on a humanitarian mission in Beirut to free two American captives, no group has ever claimed responsibility. Newspaper reports said Waite and other Western hostages were handed over to Iranian Revolutionary Guards earlier this year, but the accounts could not be verified. Waite's boss, Archbishop of Canterbury the Most Rev. Robert Runcie, recently confirmed that the church paid nearly $22,000 to two men who claimed that they could arrange a meeting with representatives of Waite's captors. The negotiations never came about...