Word: bossed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...associates more bluntly term mental laziness, were largely offset during his successful first term by the advice of an exceptionally talented group of aides. But since re-election the President has been surrounded by advisers whose own deficiencies, as the commission makes clear, disastrously dovetail with those of their boss...
...State George Shultz and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, a devious former CIA Director William Casey, and a Chief of Staff Don Regan whose proclaimed mastery of spin control failed miserably when faced with a matter of substance. And while these officials floundered, Oliver North, with the approval of his boss on the National Security Council staff, John Poindexter, showed a reckless disdain for the laws of the land by creating a covert network to fund the contras in Nicaragua while trading arms to the Iranians...
...could say Fawn Hall wasn't loyal. When her boss, Lieut. Colonel Oliver North, asked her to work weekends at the National Security Council, she readily agreed. Hall, 27, a strikingly pretty blond with blue-green eyes, often turned down modeling jobs because she was afraid they might interfere with her secretarial duties. Hall even rejected the chance to take a screen test because she was just too busy. Said a friend: "She was a good employee, and a good employee does what her employer wants...
...Georges Ibrahim Abdallah a kingpin in the world of international terrorism, or was he just a "little boss," as a French intelligence official claimed? After hearing the evidence against the self-styled "Arab fighter" last week in an ornate Paris courtroom where World War II collaborators were once tried, a special seven-judge tribunal deliberated for just 73 minutes before reaching its verdict. Not only did the tribunal find Abdallah guilty of complicity in the killings of two diplomats, including one American, and in the attempted murder of a third, but it went further than the prosecution had requested...
...central issue was whether Abdallah was only a "little boss" who had "let himself be captured," as a French intelligence official claimed, or an architect of international terrorism, as the Americans maintained. Both sides agreed with the French police source who said of Abdallah, "He was good -- no paper trail, no proof. In short, a professional." After hearing the evidence, the judges apparently concluded he was too good, in fact, to be let off lightly...