Word: bossed
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...Laden's re-emergence last Thursday was still a jolt, coming after a 13-month silence that raised questions about whether the al-Qaeda boss was incapacitated or even dead. The U.S. believes the 10-minute taped message, which aired on the Arab TV channel al-Jazeera, was probably recorded sometime since November, partly because of a reference to British newspaper reports from that time about a purported proposal by President Bush to bomb al-Jazeera. The tape suggested that bin Laden is alive, if not quite well. A longtime bin Laden watcher, French terrorism expert Roland Jacquard, speculates that...
...while he worries about his employees, Ford Motor's boss believes--belatedly, perhaps--that nothing short of a cultural revolution will save the family firm, which, like General Motors, seems to have all but lost a 30-year war with Toyota and other foreign companies for dominance of the U.S. auto market. This week he is unveiling a plan, which he calls the "Way Forward," a last-ditch effort to save the company by taking some big chances. Ford has surrendered market share in the U.S. but figures that a smaller, more innovative company can stir more passion among...
...leadership is trying to remove them. When his team unveiled the prototype it had developed for a hydrogen-powered internal-combustion car to top Ford executives in 2001, "Bill just loved it," Zanardelli says. "Everyone else raised all the reasons it wouldn't work." Despite the boss's enthusiasm, Zanardelli ran into budgetary problems and decided to go around the bureaucrats standing in the way. When he got an unexpected call from the human-resources department, he figured he was going to be fired for insurrection. Instead, Joe Laymon, group vice president of human resources, urged him to "be bold...
...Bill the boss has the support of his family, which controls 40% of the company's voting shares, worth about $1.2 billion. If there is friction, it may lie in the rivalry between Ford and his cousin Edsel, the son of Henry II, who lost out in the race for the chairman's job after a lengthy competition. Edsel, who is chairman of the Salvation Army, has said he backs Bill. Edsel's wife Cynthia says, "It's frustrating that they talk about this 'thing' with Edsel because it couldn't be farther from the truth. The family totally supports...
...height of dotcom mania, a lot of folks found it easy to hold up the boss for a raise. ?Give me what I?m worth or I?ll pack up my family pictures and head to BigDreams.com,? went the threat. It worked for a while. Then BigDreams.com went bust, the economy went with it, and working stiffs have been pining for the glory days of easy job-hopping and fat pay hikes ever since. Are those days coming back...