Word: bossed
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...illegal immigrants from France in 2008 - a rise of nearly 29% over the previous year. In doing so, Hortefeux surpassed a deportation quota of 26,000 Sarkozy had set for him. Leftist and centrist opponents of Sarkozy's policies note that Hortefeux's announcement came just hours after his boss's explanation in Nîmes that a museum of French history will "reinforce national identity". (See pictures of the Pope visiting France...
Dati is no stranger to media scrutiny. During her 20-month tenure her image has morphed in countless magazine articles from ethnic success story to fashion plate to domineering boss to alleged seductress. "THE SUPER 'BLING BLING,' THAT'S HER!" screamed one reader on the Journal du Dimanche website last Sunday...
Stay CoolWhatever happens, don't bad-mouth your boss. "Take the high road," Post says. The low one could make job hunting harder...
...want to know: Would Holder press for the "reckoning" demanded by liberal advocacy groups, even if criminal investigations get in the way of Obama's hope for bipartisan comity? Or, as Republicans prefer, would he leave the past behind? And what about his willingness to stand up to his boss and friend? As the Judiciary Committee's ranking Republican, Arlen Specter, put it, "[Holder] has an outstanding academic and professional record ... But sometimes it is more important for the Attorney General to have the stature and the courage to say no instead...
...they thought Geithner had been captured by his constituents - the heads of the largest banks and investment firms in New York, most of whom were leveraged to the hilt and deeply vulnerable to turmoil in the mortgage-backed-securities market. But Geithner's view prevailed that week with his boss, Ben Bernanke. A few weeks later, the Fed slashed its key interest rate by half a percentage point, and soon it was trying to figure out other, less conventional ways to deal with the growing crisis in the global credit markets. It has been frantically trying to contain that crisis...