Word: bossed
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...quit Texas International in January 1980 to start his own airline. "He's absolutely fearless," a member of People's board of directors observes. "He takes business risks that are unbelievable." As he assembled People Express in Newark, the new boss used Army-style screening tests to make sure job applicants had the same daring spirit that he did. By November 1980 Burr had gathered together a band of renegades who were attracted by People's you're-the-boss structure. They included a flight scheduler and a personnel manager. The new company issued stock, raising enough cash...
Meanwhile, it seems, the class of '55 has struck once more. This June, Charles Black will leave Yale's Sterling professorship to take up a teaching job at Columbia under a new boss. Yes, it's his former pupil, Dean Barbara Black...
...never ignored them. Peterson represented the lordly tradition of "relationship banking," in which camaraderie with corporate clients was the firm's chief asset. On the strength of his status as former Secretary of Commerce, he arrived at Lehman in 1973 as vice chairman. Two months later he became the boss. Among his deputies was Glucksman, who for two decades battled the disdain of Lehman's investment bankers toward traders. He believed that relationship banking was finished, that profit would come primarily from trading and better marketing and that therefore his "team" should lead...
...wife, though she is threatening to grab their children, as by his superiors. These careerists are, variously, twits, fops, climbers and pooh-bahs whose entire interest is in position, perks and, after they have dithered and muddled for a sufficient number of decades, knighthoods. Samson's boss Dicky Cruyer is a particularly loathsome species of well-connected idler, and Deighton takes great pleasure in demonstrating this. " 'Let me tell you something, Bernard,' said Dicky, leaning well back in the soft leather seat and adopting the manner of an Oxford don explaining the law of gravity to a delivery...
...general, she found, the Other Woman of today is either pursuing a promising career or trying to get past the turmoil of a divorce. A majority of Richardson's women had been married once and had had affairs with older men, often a mentor or a boss. A few entered into affairs cynically to get ahead at the office. Others wanted to experiment sexually with a disposable partner. But most seemed to drift into sexual relationships with a man they had previously pigeonholed as a friend, not a lover. By convincing themselves that the man would somehow remain merely...