Word: bosses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that he might consider an oil import fee, but only as part of a "revenue-neutral" tax-reform package; he remains adamantly opposed to raising taxes for reducing deficits. But he might be persuaded to change. Senior White House staff members were secretly polled a month ago by their boss, Donald Regan, as to whether Reagan eventually would accept a tax increase in order to get a budget deal. They voted 11 to 3 that he should not, but would...
...high are we now?" asked an ice mason at the end of his shift one recent afternoon. "Right around 56 ft.," replied his boss. The laborer chuckled and shook his head at the preposterous wonder of the thing. But even great architecture seldom endures forever, and the ice palace will last barely a fortnight: demolition is scheduled for next Thursday...
...candidate wrote, "We need leadership, experience and some old-fashioned logic to get back on the track." He pledged to deal with such problems as parking, tourism and water. Imagine, Dirty Harry worried about parking. The 18-officer police force must be just itching to get that new boss...
...going through an emergency, a very real one." So said Mexico's Finance Minister, Jesus Silva Herzog, as he emerged from a conference on the international debt crisis in London last week. Silva Herzog was not alone in that assessment. In the Caribbean resort town of Cancun, his boss, Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado, was closeted for 13 hours with Venezuelan President Jaime Lusinchi to discuss the plummeting world oil prices that are squeezing their heavily indebted economies. The two issued a communique expressing their "profound concern" over conditions in the oil market, which, they said, created...
...losing their jobs at the 3M plant in Freehold, N.J., promised ten bands for $5. But everyone got more than they bargained for when Bruce Springsteen and members of his E Street Band made a surprise appearance at the Stone Pony, the Asbury Park club where the Boss played in early days. "Remember what we're doing this for," Springsteen told the stunned audience of 500, before breaking into My Hometown, a song about a textile-plant closing in Freehold. Said Springsteen, who was born there and lives in nearby Rumson: "The marriage between a company and a community...