Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shultz defended the President at every turn, denying a suggestion by Democratic Senator George Mitchell of Maine that Reagan may have misled him. But it seemed clear his boss had in fact played along with the efforts to keep the Secretary in the dark about the Iranian dealings...
...Leading Edge computer. Peter, a San Francisco marketing representative, uses lunch breaks to get in rounds of Mean 18 golf on an IBM PC Model AT, although he feels guilty enough about fooling around on the company computer to shut off the game the moment he hears the boss coming...
...synonymous with political graft that today William Marcy Tweed is recalled mainly by the sobriquet Boss. But Novelist Morris Renek knows that the bulbous, corrupt Tammany Hall leader was not merely a caricaturist's dream. He was an authentic 19th century figure with plans and desires -- not all of them villainous. Bread and Circus imagines Tweed in his salad days, graduating from modest alderman to urban caliph. The campaigner swiftly learns to deny himself nothing, devouring vast meals, acquiring power at the expense of the citizenry, puffing like a beached whale as he sports in the percales with a period...
Moscow allowed the remaining defendants to continue to work at the plant, but they were demoted and required to notify authorities regularly of their whereabouts. Included among them are Alexander Kovalenko, 45, who supervised the No. 4 reactor, and Boris Rogozhkin, 52, the boss of the midnight-to-8 a.m. shift (the fatal explosions occurred at 1:25 a.m.). Both could receive ten- year sentences. The sixth defendant, Government Inspector Yuri Laushkin, 50, faces up to two years in prison for failing to carry out his responsibilities...
...case rests principally on an irresistible plot. Rusty Sabich, 39, is the chief deputy prosecutor of Kindle County, somewhere in the Middle West. Raymond Horgan, his boss and mentor for the past twelve years, faces a re- election battle undermined by a stroke of bad news. A little less than three weeks before the voting, Carolyn Polhemus, a member of Horgan's staff and Rusty's colleague, has been found murdered in gruesome, suggestive circumstances: nude, bound, apparently raped. Horgan's political opponents create a furor, and the local papers and TV stations chime in: if brutal crime can reach...