Word: bosses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...active underground leaders. Declared Bujak: "We will continue our struggle for freedom and the independence of our motherland." It was a pointed reminder that the people had not abandoned their demands for greater freedom, despite the recent liberation of some 1,200 detainees and a vague promise from Party Boss General Wojciech Jaruzelski that martial law might be lifted by the end of the year...
...site of the century-old Paris-Match building and retains its façades, cost about $45 million to furbish and furnish. It is largely the inspiration of René E. Hatt, 55, a beefy Swiss developer known to the hotel's 280 employees as Le Big Boss. Hatt, whose Nova-Park chain owns Switzerland's biggest hotel, in Zurich, also has hotels in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia and Cairo. This fall the chain will open its first U.S. hotel, in New York City; it will occupy the Gotham, a well-loved 77-year-old structure that is being...
Typically, Watt never bothered to tell White House operatives that he was about to announce a go-ahead for the politically troublesome plan. Despite his propensity for imbroglios, says one Reagan aide, Watt "is not in trouble with the President." The aide thinks Watt is too confrontational. The boss's view? "The President," he sighs, "doesn't mind...
...angry article for Saturday Review magazine. Seven months later, the Washington Post published a story implying that Tavoulareas had improperly "set up his son" in a shipping company and then helped his son's firm to get millions of dollars in Mobil business. To the Mobil boss, the article was an enragingly personal example of exactly what he had been complaining about. He and his son Peter sued the Post and virtually everyone connected with the story, from the editors and reporters to the sources they had relied on. Last week, after a three-week trial, a six-person...
Turner's whirlwind pace leaves most aides looking a little shellshocked. He is a kaleidoscope of ever shifting moods, interests, personalities: now the apoplectic boss, now the courtly charmer, now the scholar and Renaissance man, now the buccaneer business baron. If Turner were a character from Shakespeare, and he has that kind of incandescence, he would be in equal parts the nobly ambitious Prince Hal, the impulsively belligerent Hotspur and the comically self-indulgent Falstaff. Says Schonfeld: "If Ted Turner were a color, it would be red-the red of the surface of the sun." Adds another Turner aide...