Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Iran arms deal was not wrong because it secretly used the National Security Council, but because it was ill-conceived from the start. If Reagan's advisers had accurately portrayed the many risks and ramifications inherent in the plan to their boss, the initiative would never have left the drawing board. Despite Reagan's laxidasical management style, his political sixth sense would have told him the plan...
...repeal move started in December, when Robert Stackelbeck could not get Merrimack police to arrest his estranged wife's boss, whom he accused of having an affair with his wife. So Stackelbeck gathered evidence and filed a citizen's complaint, the first adultery charge in the state since 1950. His wife's lover was later arraigned and is now awaiting trial. The ruckus made lawmakers look skeptically at the anachronistic law. "You could go so far as to say adultery is wrong," said Republican Representative Michael Jones, author of the decriminalization bill. "But it's not the sort of wrong...
...seats in the 166-member Dail Eireann, or House of Representatives. But that was three short of an absolute majority, thus forcing the Republic of Ireland into a period of minority government. Ruling by compromise will be difficult for the autocratic Haughey, who has won the nickname "the Boss...
...Runnin' Rebel of 1980, Flintie Ray Williams has worked his way up in the years since, from blackjack dealer to pit boss at the Golden Nugget. "It's not a hard profession to break into," he explains. "All you have to do is count to 21." Among Williams' old college playmates, Eddie Owens is dealing at Caesars Palace and Sam Smith is valeting cars. Williams is quick to add that "at a hundred and a half a night, a lot of people would park cars. You can be a porter in this town and make...
Moscow's nonstop diplomatic offensive is creating interest in the West, particularly in Western Europe. In London a Marplan survey suggested that Gorbachev is overtaking an Iranscam-weakened Ronald Reagan in the battle for public opinion. Among British respondents, 30% said they trusted Reagan more than the Communist boss to end the arms race, vs. 27% who put faith in Gorbachev...