Word: bosses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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David Chu, Spinney's boss, who had tried to prevent him from testifying, sat next to Spinney at the felt-covered witness table and listened warily. When it came his turn to speak, Chu argued that Spinney's analysis did not really apply to the Reagan defense budget. Said Chu: "Those charges ignore the various steps this Administration has taken ... to deal with these problems on a systematic and decisive basis. I urge patience." Did Spinney agree, Senators asked, that the initiatives taken by the Administration would bring costs under control? Spinney was cautious about criticizing his superiors...
Spinney's boss was the now legendary Colonel John Boyd, a rebel so fierce in his beliefs that he was sometimes called "the mad colonel." Boyd organized the so-called Fighter Mafia, a group of officers who insisted that the service ought to develop a lightweight, fairly simple, relatively inexpensive combat plane. Boyd taught Spinney that the cost and complexity of weapons are no accurate guide to their performance in combat. But clear thinking like Boyd's was rare in the Air Force bureaucracy. Tired of running into intellectual brick walls-and afraid that some of his superiors...
...Trawl tracks down truant workers who show up late at the factory, Andropov is seeking to free his creaking bureaucracy of its habitual corruption. Since assuming office, he has reshuffled some 20 top officials and summarily dismissed six others. He pointedly chose Crime Buster Geidar Aliyev, 59, former party boss and KGB chief in Azerbaijan, as Deputy Premier. He also fired Leonid Brezhnev's crony and Interior Minister, Nikolai Shchelokov, and replaced him as head of the bribe-prone civil police with his successor at the KGB, General Vitali Fedorchuk...
Imaging, for example being forced to admit that you earn your keep at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and respectfully humble yourself before a boss who is none other than Anne Burford. Jokes from the in0laws could wear thin after a short time...
When food service workers union boss Domenic M. Bozzotto sits down to negotiate with Harvard, he faces someone whose personal style, as well as his administrative role, differs sharply from his. While Bozzotto likes to publicize his negotiating stance, and sees negotiations in general as an adversarial process. Harvard labor negotiator Edward W. Powers feels that media scrutiny makes contract talks more difficult, and he claims both sides are best served by cooperation between management and labor...