Word: bossed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when he says that baseball "breaks up the monotony of endless golf." A 14-year-old wearing a T shirt emblazoned with the face of the Reds' Chris Sabo, the N.L. Rookie of the Year in '88, says, "It's a toss- up. Baseball and girls are about equally boss...
GOING into this election, it was a battle of the heirs. Evans was Washington's protege and the man most able to carry on his agenda, while Daley, of course, was the son of "the Boss" for the white community. What Daley did right was to play down his heredity; what Evans did wrong was to play up his heredity...
George Bush supports random drug testing in the workplace, including the workplace where he's the boss. The Administration plans to conduct random urinalysis among more than 80% of the 1,850 employees in the Executive Office of the President, which includes the White House staff, the Office of Management and Budget, the National Security Council and other agencies...
During a session with Boris Yeltsin, the party-boss-turned-populist, photographer Ted Thai found it impossible to get him to smile. "So I went over and tugged on his cheek to show him what I meant," Thai recalls. The tactic may have been unorthodox, but Yeltsin is hardly the orthodox Soviet politician...
...Leningrad the top five party leaders were all wiped out. Also fallen: about a third of the 129 regional party leaders, Moscow's mayor, Lithuania's top leadership, the KGB boss in Estonia, the admiral of the Pacific fleet and the general of Soviet forces in East Germany, the party boss in Kiev, and Yevgeni Brakov, the manager of Moscow's ZIL limousine factory, who had the thankless task of taking on Yeltsin...