Word: bossed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York State department of commerce, in their new book Biz Speak: A Dictionary of Business Terms, Slang and Jargon (Franklin Watts; $17.95). This handy compendium reveals, for example, that a Valium picnic is a slow day on the stock market, warm fuzzies are praise from the boss, and scoodling is actually unauthorized duplication of prerecorded music. Socks and stocks is the nickname for nonbanking companies like Sears that offer financial services. Daddy Mac is not a new kind of hamburger but rather a shared-equity mortgage in which parents become co-owners of their children's home. Missionary selling...
...recordings of his live performances have been available only in illegal, bootlegged editions. On Nov. 10 that will change, when Columbia Records releases a five-record boxed set called Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Live, 1975-85. This three-hour-plus compendium of concert excerpts by the "Boss" is expected to retail for between $25 and $30. Columbia plans an initial shipment of about 1.7 million copies...
...could conceivably outsell Springsteen's classic Born in the U.S.A., which has sold about 20 million copies, but may not catch Michael Jackson's Thriller (35 million copies). Even so, the price of the Springsteen package is more than three times what Thriller costs (about $8), and thus the Boss's live recordings could easily generate more revenue than any other product in music history...
Justice Department Spokesman Terry Eastland contends that the naysayers have misinterpreted his boss, who only meant to stress that those who believe a decision is wrong may seek out legitimate ways to overturn it. Eastland points to the example of civil rights groups, which for years submitted briefs to the court urging the reversal of Plessy vs. Ferguson, the 1896 decision upholding segregation. Meese has made clear that he believes issues such as abortion and the rights of the accused remain similarly unsettled...
When the caller said that maybe he wanted to know about the chemistry prize instead of the peace one, Johnson reconsidered and interrupted her boss...