Word: bosses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Yankers have just dropped three straight to the Red Son and with a boss like George Steinbrenner, the pink slip is probably in the mail...
...magnitude of the win is multiplied by the fact that Robin Boss, one of the Crimson's top players, did not compete for personal reasons...
Have a tendency to kidnap young girls? This is not the sort of thing one says in the middle of one's boss's campaign to give $14 million to the contras, only a week after said boss has called the contras "our brothers" and "the moral equal of our Founding Fathers." But it's not the impolitic thing to say if one is using the time-honored leak method to away the course of the boss's policy...
...little child in each of us would kill any person who infringed our slightest right," argues Rex Beaber, a clinical psychologist at UCLA. "A reservoir of rage exists in each person, waiting to burst out. We fantasize about killing or humiliating our boss or the guy who took our parking space. It is only by growing up in a civilized society of law that we learn the idea of proportionate response...
...Canadian shipbuilding company before joining General Dynamics in 1973 as head of its Quincy, Mass., shipyard. Rising quickly, he was appointed head of the problem-plagued Electric Boat division in 1977. He fired more than 3,000 workers at the Groton, Conn., yard within weeks of becoming boss, then went on to oversee the building of the first Trident submarine. Veliotis claims that David Lewis, General Dynamics' chairman and chief executive officer, promised to step aside and give him the top spot as a reward for a good performance, but reneged. "That man could charm a snake," says Veliotis...