Word: bossed
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...authority derives not from their titles but from their willingness to operate in the highly volatile, here's-the-deal-dammit world of eyeball-to-eyeball diplomacy. The formula is simple: earn the trust of the principals, talk straight and cut the best deal you can; then tell the boss what you have done. If Oakley radiates a no-nonsense stability and mental toughness, it is partly because, in the words of Robert Carswell, former Deputy Treasury Secretary, ''his career had him in every hot spot there was outside of Russia.'' His first test came as a 22-year...
...good release.'' Malone, on the other hand, is painfully shy and often appears uncomfortable in public. Although he lives in the Denver area, he is little known there outside business circles, and he forbids interviewers to ask about his wife Leslie or their two children. A benevolent boss and a passionate sailor, Malone once painstakingly restored a turn-of-the century commuter boat that had ferried robber barons along the Hudson River. Among the few personal touches in his office are a working model of an 1854 America's Cup racer and a replica of his own yacht, the Leslie...
...distinctly comforting call of my name amid the screams of the subway and the merciless honks of taxis. Deep down in the hub of the Broadway-Lafayette station, I was able to commiserate with a friend over her day-long mission to procure just the right Blackberry for her boss. As we paused to exchange complaints on interning duties and made plans that did not revolve around Harvard Square’s amenities, it was evident that New York can never entirely swallow you. In fact, the hurried ebb and flow of the great city’s life encases...
...Kurtz says he showed the police catalogs of his past exhibits, including one on genetically modified plants at the Corcoran Art Gallery in Washington, D.C. "I told them, I am a professor. Please call my boss and confirm this with her," says Kurtz. After the medical examiner told the police that Hope's cause of death was not strangulation, as officers had initially speculated (her death would be ruled heart failure), the police left...
...French Muslim women are increasingly defying the restrictions and repression men try to enforce, and leading full, modern lives - including sexually," says Dounia Bouzar, whose recent book Allah, My Boss, and Me explores Islam in the French workplace. "The one time they feel obliged to make a concession to outdated attitudes is with the marital requirement of virginity - a purely macho tradition that has no basis in Islam, and is certainly nothing courts should be respecting. This surgery is unfortunate, though it is a way for women who have insisted on living their own lives to avoid punishment under...