Word: bosses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Yardlings will not have an easy time cracking the varsity line-up, with Captain Roberta Hing leading a talented group of veterans--including Erika Smith, Kathy Vigna, Robin Boss, and Cindy Austrian--as the women attempt to improve on last year's ranking of 17th in the nation...
White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary Larry Speakes ran interference for his boss, fending off media flak as conditions deteriorated in South Africa. It was Speakes, along with State Department Spokesman Charles Redman, who spearheaded the major development of the month, a new offensive against the Soviet Union. In a makeshift press room, the Administration's mouthpiece announced U.S. plans to test an anti-satellite weapon and charged that Soviet agents have used a toxic dust to track American diplomats in Moscow...
...each tends to bristle and confront the other. That is a sharp contrast to the relative harmony between their two predecessors, James Baker and former Senator Howard Baker. Regan's take-charge aggressiveness recently led three of his trusted former aides at the Treasury Department to warn their old boss that he needed to tone down his public image, arguing that it was hurting the President. Apparently unwilling to encourage any potential challengers, Regan has limited the power of the few veteran hands he has recruited to the White House, including Political Adviser Ed Rollins and Legislative Strategist Max Friedersdorf...
Just how Gorbachev made his way from there to become leader of the Soviet Union in a mere seven years is known only inside the Kremlin. Certainly his record as boss of Soviet farming was not glittering: grain harvests peaked just about the time he took over and have fallen sharply since, forcing the / U.S.S.R. to import more and more food. The job, indeed, has traditionally been a road to oblivion. Among the septuagenarians in the Politburo, which he joined as a candidate member in 1979 and full voting member a year later, he stood out primarily for his youth...
...headed the government in all but name. The final step occurred on March 10, 1985, when Chernenko died and the Secretariat elected Gorbachev General Secretary less than five hours later. Nominating Gorbachev for that post, Gromyko gave what has since become the standard one- line description of the new boss. Said Gromyko: "This man has a nice smile, but he has got iron teeth...