Word: bosses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Southern Europe land forces headquarters in Verona, recovered with remarkable speed. At Padua police headquarters, the Florida-born career soldier insisted, "I'm fine," and called his wife Judith in Frankfurt, where she was visiting her daughter Cheryl, 24, an Air Force second lieutenant. Then he called his boss, Admiral William J. Crowe, commander of NATO'S Southern Region. Speaking by telephone to U.S. Ambassador Maxwell Rabb in Rome, Dozier recounted the final seconds before he was freed. Said he: "At the moment I was rescued, a gun was pointed at me and I didn't know...
...foreign policy is closely aligned with the Soviet Union's. Yet four Communists hold posts in the 44-member Cabinet of President François Mitterrand, an outspoken foe of Soviet imperialism who wasted no time in denouncing the declaration of martial law in Poland. While Communist Boss Georges Marchais parroted Moscow and Warsaw, blaming Solidarity for "overbidding," the Communist ministers had little choice but to endorse Mitterrand's strong criticism of the Polish move if they wanted to stay in the government. Grudgingly, they agreed...
...subordinate, began wondering about Stanford's abilities. He studied an 18-month period and found that 43% of Stanford's patients, 17 in all, had died during or shortly after their operations; the hospital average was 6%. Akins says his study was sent to Stanford's boss, General Paul Myers. Myers did not publicize the report, but the word was out in the hospital corridors...
...offered the job in Boston, her husband Robert, 54, who owns an air-freight trucking company in Newark, responded with enthusiasm. "She supported me for years," he says, "and now she is entitled to whatever success she can get." One person who opposed the commuting was her boss, Howard B. Johnson. Says Doris: "He was concerned that it would either jeopardize my marriage or disrupt my business efficiency. He was wrong on both counts...
Laskey Bell was studious, quiet; his father jeeringly called him a "clerk," and that's what he became--a clerk in the Osborne Lumber Company, jeered at there by his boss Eddie Osborne because he blushed at the racy calendars Osborne hung on the walls of the office they both shared. Thirty years later, when Osborne came to him for a loan that would enable him to move into the expanding natural gas industry of the Kanawha Valley with the promise of a full partnership, Laskey Bell set a further condition--he wanted Osborne's daughter's hand in marriage...