Word: bossed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even if, against all odds, Tower squeaks through to confirmation, he will be seriously damaged. As Pentagon boss, his effectiveness would be hampered by having to deal with a hostile Senate Armed Services Committee whose chairman, Georgia Democrat Sam Nunn, had led the battle against...
...book's protagonist, Jayson Lyman, is an investment banker who grips his peach-colored Financial Times "like a swagger stick." Advised by his boss that French magnate Marcel Bresson is out to buy News/Worldweek, Lyman is ready to leap to the American company's defense. "You mean foreigners, the French of all people, think they can take over the biggest media company in America? They'll get their butts kicked!" But Lyman's boss informs him that their firm has been retained by the other side...
...Secretary of State James Baker is renowned for keeping his boss out of deep doo-doo and never stepping into any himself. But Baker's surefootedness was notably lacking last week. In his first frantic foreign foray as the nation's top diplomat, the up-close-and-personal touch that has served Baker so well with Congress and the press did not play very well. And a new accord by five Central American Presidents caught the Secretary uncharacteristically off- stride...
North and his boss at the time, National Security Advisor Robert McFarlane, "decided they didn't want Congress to know what Colonel North had been doing. They decided they would not tell Congress," Keker said. "They decided they would place themselves above the law and not tell Congress about Colonel North's activities...
...belonged to a presidential task force and is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He has won two Grammy Awards and has had an audience with the Pope. When the phone rings in his office in Augusta, Ga., a receptionist crisply answers, "Godfather of Soul." But the boss can't come to the phone right now. James Brown, the self- styled Hardest-Working Man in Show Business, is 70 miles away in South Carolina's State Park Correctional Center, serving a six-year sentence...