Word: bosses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...turned out, the U.S. and the Soviet Union rejected the proposals. In fact, only a few weeks later, Nitze and his boss, Eugene Rostow, were rebuked by the White House for even exploring such a missile compromise with the Soviets. And when Rostow was fired earlier this month, he suggested a bit misleadingly that it was Nitze's abortive breakthrough last July that had clinched his downfall, and not his own sometimes imperious style. Yet Nitze remains, by every account, the most experienced, respected hawk in the defense Establishment...
Allen Dorfman, above all else, was a survivor. Introduced to the young Jimmy Hoffa in 1949, when the future Teamsters boss was but an ambitious union leader in Detroit, Dorfman parlayed that friendship into a multimillion-dollar insurance empire whose most lucrative account was the union's Central States Health and Welfare Fund. From 1958 to 1971, when Hoffa headed the Teamsters, Dorfman emerged as his powerful lieutenant. Before Hoffa was led off to jail in 1967 for jury tampering, he told subordinates, "When Dorfman speaks, he speaks...
...film Frances, a studio mogul leans toward Jessica Lange, 33, playing the troubled actress Frances Farmer, and proffers a word of advice: "You're an actress, and your job is to act, tootsie." The studio boss knew his stuff. In Tootsie, Lange floored almost everyone with her smoky vulnerability. And so, with two of the most highly praised performances of the past year, she is an odds-on favorite to garner two Academy Award nominations next month, the first double designate in four decades. Back on the arm of her longtime beau Mikhail Baryshnikov, 34, Lange finds that...
...cost adds up to an all-inclusive and defensible $100 per sq. ft., approximately. You can get buildings for less, but the Hart's cost cannot fairly be compared with other office buildings, public or private. There are few Government departments or corporations, for example, that average one boss for every 27 employees, which is the ratio in the Hart Building. The structure, furthermore, shows laudable attention to detail and quality of materials and craftsmanship. Among its features are a 3-in. marble veneer (in contrast to the ⅞ in. to 2 in. common in cheaper structures), solid brass...
MARRIED. Steve Van Zandt, 32, rock guitarist for the E Street Band, and Dancer Maureen Santoro, 32; both for the first time; in New York City. The minister was rock-'n'-roll legend Little Richard (Evangelist Richard Penniman), the best man Van Zandt's sometime boss Bruce Springsteen...