Word: bossed
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...each weekday morning. Within five minutes -- exactly five minutes -- half a dozen regulars at one of Manhattan's most elite breakfast clubs have assembled in a splendidly appointed room graced with a Roy Lichtenstein. Noshing bagels, they obediently await the less punctual arrival of their host and boss, Ronald Perelman, 51, the petulant billionaire-about-town whose empire includes banks, television stations and Revlon cosmetics-as well as holdings such as Coleman camping gear and Pantry Pride supermarkets that are less likely to get him on the pages of Vanity Fair...
...boss and university officials finally saw her side and agreed to increase her wages in the future to make up for the loss in her raise, but she had to work hard to convince them of the merit of her case. It seems that although many companies give lip-service to family commitment and flexibility, you really can't have it both ways--sometimes, it doesn't even matter if you have tenure at a large university...
...they had agreed to. Clinton enthused, "This agreement is specific. It is measurable. It will achieve real, concrete results." In Tokyo, however, Hisashi Hosokawa, a hard-line miti official, insisted that "this agreement is a rejection of numerical targets" for Japanese purchases of American cars and parts. His boss, miti Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, may have strengthened his already bright chances for becoming Japan's next Prime Minister: he was being hailed as a hero precisely for having got Kantor to drop a U.S. demand for such targets...
...also easy to go too far. A victim of a not so funny episode at the University of North Carolina fell for a FakeMail message, ostensibly from her boss, announcing that she had been fired. The electronic mailbox of a University of Chicago student was flooded after someone used FakeMail to subscribe him to more than a hundred E-mail discussion groups. Still other victims complain of being set up for sexual harassment and threats. FakeMail incidents got so out of hand at the University of Michigan that a system administrator threatened to block student access to the site...
...looking for a new studio chief while he learns more about the company. And Ovitz, according to a CAA representative, is "working his little fanny off." Some industry insiders think Ovitz's real goal is to be the next chairman of Time Warner. And if that, why not the boss of Viacom? Or Supreme Commander of the Galaxy? And would anyone be surprised if the discussions between Ovitz and Bronfman were to start again? After all, they still have a relationship...