Word: bossed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...unclear. The executives swiftly issued statements nearly identical in tone to explain their actions. "We were concerned about the city's inability to move forward due to the situation and circumstances that had surrounded Mayor Kilpatrick and his administration," Gilbert's statement read. The statement of Karmanos, Kilpatrick's boss, read: "We wanted to help care for his family until he could get back on his feet. At this time the loans remain outstanding...
...revealing, until close to the end, that these pill-popping, pleasure-seeking if girl-shy goof-offs are gangsters at all. And Lee wisely lets singer turned actor Pete Teo and sleepy-eyed Singaporean cult actor Sunny Pang (cast as a country bumpkin who rises by default to gang boss) carry the weight with amazingly nuanced and uncontrived nonperformances. (See TIME's complete coverage: The 2009 Cannes Film Festival...
...front. Troubled Iberia and BA, which both announced ugly losses over the past week, reckon eliminating duplicate services from fleet maintenance to business class lounges will save the airlines $600 million a year. That'll mean "a strong European airline will able to compete in the 21st century," BA boss Willie Walsh, who'll head the new company, said in a statement. (See the best travel gadgets...
...Statements along these lines abound in this highly verbal film, but the interview segments go far beyond a women-are-from-Venus approach in unfolding the fragility of both genders in their relationships. When describing why he fell in love with his wife, Sara’s boss, Professor Adams (Timothy Hutton), asks, “Do you think this sounds shallow? People’s real reasons?” Indeed, the reasons most test subjects give for justifying how they act toward others highlights the absurdity, cruelty and vulnerability of humans in their dealings with one another...
...fellow Monmouth County resident Bruce Springsteen, whose music sometimes fills Bharara's office when he works late. A framed photo of the Boss and Bharara's mother hangs in his lower-Manhattan office...