Word: bossed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite his image problems however. Fox heads into his first year at GSAS with strong support from his boss. Dean of the Faculty A Michael Spence, who this summer described Fox as "someone with dedication to Harvard, first-class administrative skills and someone who will be concerned about both students and administration...
...regional Communist Party first secretaries and dozens of officials in major cities and republic ministries have been fired. At the top, Gorbachev has named four new voting members of the Politburo, bringing its membership to 13, and nine new government ministers. Grigory Romanov, 62, the Leningrad party boss who was widely considered to be Gorbachev's chief rival, was unceremoniously dumped from the Politburo and Secretariat; officially he resigned for reasons of health. Gromyko, 76, was artfully nudged upstairs to the prestigious but largely % ceremonial post of President and head of state, and replaced as Foreign Minister by Eduard Shevardnadze...
...massive check- kiting scheme, but declined to seek indictments of any of the firm's officers, although Hutton was fined $2 million. Meese has also had to defend the Justice Department's protection of Jackie Presser, the president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and the only major union boss who supported Ronald Reagan's 1980 and 1984 presidential bids. In July the Justice Department decided not to prosecute Presser on charges of paying $274,000 to nonworking "ghost employees" at a Teamsters local in Cleveland. Presser's uncle Allen Friedman went to federal prison for allegedly receiving such illegal...
Until he took over the service last month, Hellenbroich had been in charge of the Office for Protection of the Constitution (OPC), West Germany's counterespionage agency. As such, he was the boss of Hans Joachim Tiedge, 48, head of the agency's East Germany section, who defected to that country two weeks ago. Despite complaints from co-workers that Tiedge was a security risk because of his heavy drinking and mounting debts, Hellenbroich had refused to move or suspend him, an action that Kohl called "totally incomprehensible." Even so, Hellenbroich insisted that he had not made a mistake...
...German opposition were eager to prevent the disclosures from undermining efforts by the two Germanys to improve relations. With Kohl's blessing, Franz Josef Strauss, the Bavarian conservative leader, planned to visit East Germany this week for the annual Leipzig trade fair and a meeting with East German Party Boss Erich Honecker. In addition, former Chancellor Willy Brandt intends to see Honecker in East Berlin later in the month. In that sense, though the spies may have been real, officials in both countries seemed at least partly willing to treat them as fiction...