Word: bossed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heartbeat, he's surprised. Seated there, eight to a row in folding chairs, are the latest recruits: 300 employees leap to their feet as a boss on a p.a. system yells, "Let's welcome Jeff Bezos!" They give him a standing O. "Thank you!" says Bezos. "Let me say, Thank you for working here!" And he laughs that startling laugh...
Actually, it was one of Shaw's partners who interviewed Bezos first and urged the boss to meet him, saying, "He's going to make someone a lot of money someday." Shaw agreed, understanding that Bezos was unusual not only for his balanced intellect--he could handle complex logic as well as articulate his thinking--but also for the overall package: smart, creative, personable, precisely the kind of person they wanted. Over time, Bezos became a specialist in researching business opportunities in insurance, software and then the booming Internet...
...ability to make things work drew the attention in the mid-1980s of the Communist Party boss in Moscow, Boris Yeltsin. Luzhkov rose steadily under Yeltsin's benevolent shadow, and in 1992 was appointed mayor of Moscow. When the communist system collapsed, the city unceremoniously took over as much of the party's resources as it could. A corporation that is closely controlled by the mayor, Sistema ("the system"), now controls much of the capital's prime real estate, factories and construction firms, plus a media empire that includes a couple of TV stations. Luzhkov has described his blueprint...
...reportedly making $60,000 a year at Columbia-Presbyterian, leaped at the chance. He took a leave of absence from the hospital, bade farewell to his second wife Heidi and three sons and joined Safra's staff five months ago. In that short time, he learned to love his boss and, in what Maher's lawyer calls "the sad gesture of a sick man," sent him to a smoky death...
...upward of 70 percent of voters appeared to favor parties backing presidential candidates of varying authoritarian stripe (both Putin and Primakov, remember, are products of the KGB), looks set to give President Boris Yeltsin his friendliest legislature since the collapse of communism. But Putin's bid to be the boss Russian voters clearly crave is based almost entirely on the war in Chechnya, where Moscow's troops have taken control of much of the rebel republic while suffering minimal losses. But the Chechen guerrilla forces have for the most part simply retreated into the mountains. It is the next phase...