Word: bossed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...presidency of Ford to Semon ("Bunkie") Knudsen, then a top executive at General Motors. Ford rented an Oldsmobile and drove to Knudsen's house to offer him the job. Within 19 months, though, Ford fired Knudsen, who had made the error of trying to get too chummy with the boss. One mistake: he constantly barged into Ford's office without knocking...
...corporate rebuilding job that young Ford faced was formidable. The company was losing nearly $10 million a month, and labor relations were chaotic. The new boss did what any good manager in trouble does: he sought help. Ford accepted an offer made by a brash team of former Air Force officers and signed them up in a package deal. He gave them salaries that were princely at the time, ranging from $9,000 to $16,000. Among the ten Whiz Kids, as they were called: McNamara and Arjay Miller, both of whom later became Ford presidents. Henry raided...
...wider than this geographic separation is a gulf of distrust. White friends could not fathom why I wanted to go to Black areas. Neither could Blacks, once I got there. When I asked a Black street peddler to break a dollar for bus change, his boss warned him, "Don't give change to no white girl...
...dinner with the Journal's news staff in Washington in 1980, shortly before he won a Pulitzer Prize. But editorial writers' testy independence did not begin with Bartley: Phillips remembers Bartley's predecessor, Vermont Connecticut Royster, protesting, "I can't argue with ignorance," as he stormed out of his boss's office...
...they'll be crooks again if we let them. Let's see if anything changes." Roberts' next step is to reconvene the advocates of management and labor to argue over the long-term remedies, as well as the financial damages presumably owed Gibson and the rest. As Baseball Union Boss Donald Fehr interprets the ruling, "Some people might say the owners have been convicted and are waiting to be sentenced." For the moment, however, the football players have a clearer understanding of the price of freedom...