Word: bosses
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Once I got two "business" calls in one day: one from a former high school acquaintance and one from a former close friend with a sister. On another, slightly more interesting afternoon, I convinced my boss to order my parents' SAT scores from the ETS archives and mail them home. My parents were all for the idea. When they went to high school, before the first enlightenment of the test-taking industry, nobody ever found out his or her own scores. The folks did, though, stipulate that the scores be retrieved separately and sent home in different envelopes...
...hard-liners blame the present crisis not only on ex-Party Boss Stanislaw Kania, who cooperated with Solidarity, but on some of the major figures in the current leadership. Among them: Kazimierz Barcikowski and Hieronim Kubiak, both Politburo members, and Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Rakowski. Since all three are close to Jaruzelski, who is thought to side with the moderates, the general also seems to be an indirect target. But Jaruzelski's position appears to be secure: not only does he control the army, he seems to enjoy the full confidence of the Kremlin. On the eve of the plenum...
...resent seeing my former subordinate in a technically superior position. She hoped that when Nixon told me the next morning, I would not give him a hard time; I should remember that he needed bolstering and support. She was, of course (she said), calling on her own without her boss's knowledge. (The odds were that he was standing beside her, prompting her while she talked.) It was vintage Nixon: the fear of confrontation; the indirect approach; the acute insight into my reaction; and the attempt to soften it through a preposterous charade that would get him over...
Brian Connelly, a Suffolk University student and lobby organizer said yesterday that the only "brick wall" he and his co-workers met was Thomas Milady assistant secretary for post secondary education in the Education Department, who "basically said, Reagan's my boss and his stance is the one I'm going to take '"Connolly said...
...finds he misused the funds. Dismissing the suggestion that he reimburse the government, Watt says tersely it is the GAO that "is in error." Indeed, the Secretary does not even deign to appear at the Congressional hearing into the matter, sending instead an aide who simply reiterates that his boss has done no wrong...