Word: bosses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that despite those intentions, the President proceeded to undermine his own trustworthiness more than ever. His latest battery of misstatements, gaffes and revisionist history sent advisors scurrying to pick up the pieces. And it occasioned what has become a post-press-conference phenomenon: Reagan aides lamely explaining away their boss's errors by saying he had "misspoken himself...
...nearly everything that goes to the President. His crisp conduct of National Security Council meetings during the initial weeks of the crackdown in Poland earned him praise from other top Administration officials. But most important, from Bush's point of view, he has won the confidence of his boss. "He is the most loyal team member that anybody could want," Reagan recently told a conservative friend...
...headquarters building in New York City and made $294 million. Last year it sold its profitable chain of Intercontinental Hotels for $500 million. To sharpen a sagging management, Pan Am's board of directors encouraged William Seawell to retire last year and named C. Edward Acker, then the boss of Air Florida, as new chairman...
...couture of an intergalactic hitchhiker? In Paramount's $10 million space epic Star Trek II, Montalban does just that. He plays the diabolic Khan, a villainous android who escapes exile on a nightmarish planet but not the embraces of two comely space maidens. As Tattoo might say: Hey Boss, whoever said dreams don't come true...
...hero behind the new antitrust policy is Assistant U.S. Attorney General William F. Baxter, whose reputation is growing among both liberals and conservatives. Like the Western sheriff his boss liked to portray in black-and-while movies. Baxter is aggressive, tough, and fair. In dropping the IBM case, he admitted straight forwardly that "it is perfectly clear that IBM obtained its very large market share in an entirely legal way." But one cannot charge him with being soft on big business; the AT&T settlement was entirely his doing, and his opposition recently prevented the G. Heileman Brewing Company from...