Word: bossed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan's aides, camped out in Santa Barbara, some 30 miles down the mountain from the ranch, it was time to take marching orders from Chief of Staff Donald Regan, who has emerged as the undisputed boss in a once loose hierarchy of advisers. White House staffers have been noticeably less leaky this summer as they dine on the expense accounts of the news-hungry White House press corps. Only McFarlane has managed to retain some autonomy, by virtue of his foreign policy expertise and willingness to speak...
...Some bosses think they can elicit brainstorms from their workers simply by plying them with coffee and doughnuts. But Bruce Katz, president of Rockport Co., a shoe manufacturer in Marlboro, Mass., thinks a little sun and wind surfing are a much better inducement. This summer he is spending a reported $15,000 a month to rent Plaisance, a 20-room chateau by the sea in Newport, R.I., that he has dubbed Camp Rockport. In groups of a dozen, each of his 220 employees takes a car pool to the mansion for two days of sports and shoptalk with the boss...
...rile him are dropped into cold storage for months, not invited to meetings, or ignored when Falwell calls upon colleagues to offer prayers. He runs his church state like a monarch. Frequently at management meetings, when everyone is lined up to vote a certain way, and Falwell differs, the boss simply disregards them and goes his own way. Close supporters say Falwell badly needs some stronger people around to moderate his unchecked power...
...college tuition for their children, even the losers--and there were a lot of them--seemed to agree: it could not have happened to a nicer bunch. "These guys are like a cross section of America, with every ethnic, racial and religious group represented," said Karl Wallburg, their boss at the George Hantscho Co. press manufacturing plant. "It's like a fairy tale, and all of us here, even those who didn't win, are on cloud nine...
...Jersey and even farther afield. Players who spent as long as three hours in line came with big dreams of what they would buy (a Tudor house, the New York Yankees), small ones (roller skates for little brother) or get-even ones (buy the firm and fire the boss) if their luck prevailed. In the final hours before the drawing, it seemed nobody could be thinking of the mathematically exact odds of 6,135,756 to 1. Banker Jurgis Savaitis, 64, who doubtless knew better, said while waiting in line that as an investment, a Lotto ticket purchase was "better...