Word: bosses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Regan insists there is as much spirited debate as ever while the boss is making up his mind on policy. But the chief of staff is adamant that there be no debate whatever after the President's decision has been reached. And nowadays, at least in dealing with Congress, that decision is often combative. Regan has apparently encouraged his boss in that approach. To the staff, says one member, Regan "has maintained that we follow that macho line all the way through." But there is no doubt who is the original source of the line, and his last name...
Harvard's next four singles players--Kathy Vigna, Robin Boss, Erika Smith, and Cyndy Austrian--then followed suit, storming through their quaking opponents without losing...
...million--$200 a share for the publication's more than 700,000 outstanding shares--and agreed to shelter the newly acquired property as a separate company under his corporate umbrella. Still, the announcement unsettled those who work for the magazine. "There is a great fear that a new boss would probably change the place so much that the character of the magazine would not be what it has been," said a longtime staffer. "When one sees a huge corporate presence enter, it is hard to think The New Yorker is going to be the same...
...free at any time to adjust the criteria and watch how those changes affect the proposed outcome. Thoughtware's Trigger ($495), another management assistant, helps an executive track his business's performance. Should sales, costs or inventory, for example, get too far out of line, the program warns the boss and automatically generates a memo to the manager responsible, asking for an explanation of exactly what went wrong and a plan...
...familiar. His comedy would be cruel if Brooks were not so good at playing the victims he concocts: so pompously thrilled as he rationalizes their lurches off the beaten track, so bone scared when things go awry. In Hagerty and Garry Marshall, the TV mastermind who plays a casino boss, he has glorious foils. Lost in America does not conclude; it merely ends, as if Brooks had run out of money or inspiration before he could think up a third act. But the year is unlikely to produce a funnier unfinished symphony...