Word: bossed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When Attorney General Edwin Meese first learned from North last November of the diversion of Iran arms-money funds to the contras, he made no immediate effort to determine whether North's boss, National Security Adviser John Poindexter, also knew about the diversion or whether North had any higher authorization for his actions. The report noted that Meese's lapse might have given the two White House aides a chance to coordinate their stories. The committee reported, "Meese testified that it never occurred to him that there would be any collusions of an untoward nature...
...more. Just three weeks after his promotion, O'Donnell was suddenly missing from Thompson offices last week. He had been abruptly fired after presenting a plan to take the company private and oust Johnston as boss, according to members of the J.W.T. board of directors. The directors, who decided that O'Donnell's behavior was grossly inappropriate, deliberated for about an hour before giving Johnston the go-ahead to sack...
...they had said, look, we don't think that people who do drugs are apt to be competent, then that would have been one thing. It's just barely conceivable that Nixon's men broke into Watergate because their boss needed a fix, or that Ivan Boesky was just trying to scrape some money together for another vial of crack. But the given rationalization, if any, was simply that drug takers are lawbreakers. Case closed...
...such pro-labor scholar happens to beScott's boss. President Bok, who began his Harvardcareer as a labor-relations expert and professorof law, co-authored a book with Lamont UniversityProfessor John T. Dunlop on the importance ofunionization and collective bargaining...
...carpeted, chandelier-bedizened supermarkets, Byerly offers 24-hour, seven-days-a-week grocery shopping, complete with full-service meat and fish departments. The outlets are attractive, but the difference is, as he puts it, "the way they're run." Each store is managed semi-independently by a single boss, who tailors the contents to neighborhood needs with little overseeing from top management. Company-wide, Byerly's has 2,100 employees, but only five work in what the proprietor jokingly calls "world headquarters" in the Minneapolis suburb of Edina...