Word: bosses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...streets knows there's something behind the facade of big ideas and brave leadership called U.S. Government. Average Joe understands that grand policies emerge from purely political settlements between rapacious special interests; that the experts who package these policies often don't have much faith in what the boss is preaching; and that the warrantees on schemes to save our society tend to run out shortly after election day. But what he may not realize is that an entire species of not-so-evil people spend their lives working within the Washington system--lobbying, writing legislation, consulting, drafting regulations...
...realism, he relies heavily on shoddy New Journalism techniques to add flavor to his descriptions. From every party and intimate conversation, every private meeting and public confrontation, come long, laborious, detailed quotes. Was Fromson wearing a Dick Tracy-style tape recorder-wristwatch--when, for instance, he challenged his boss on arms sales and got this (exact) reply...
Elizabeth Taylor, "out of my mind" after several months on her own, marries David Stockman, "out of my mind, period." In an interview in Parents magazine, Stockman says, "Our kids are going to get enough to eat. None of this ketchup stuff. Oops, the boss may use the buckle end this time...
...investigation, he would seek access to court-sealed FBI tapes of conversations by a Schiavone subcontractor, William Masselli, a convicted hijacker and alleged Mafioso. TIME has learned that federal court records, as well as undercover operations, provide evidence of a close relationship between Masselli and Louis Sanzo, the union boss who allegedly pocketed $2,000 in Schiavone funds at a restaurant in New York while Donovan looked on. Until now the Justice Department has maintained that no evidence links Sanzo with Masselli. But Masselli has appeared in court as a defense witness for Sanzo, and in a 1978 taped conversation...
...victory of Marxists in nations as diverse and far-flung as the Seychelles, South Yemen, Ethiopia, Angola and Nicaragua led Richard Nixon to proclaim that World War III has already begun and that the other side may be winning. Without resorting to quite the rhetorical excesses of his former boss, Secretary of State Alexander Haig uses almost every occasion he can to raise the alarm: "Moscow is the greatest source of international insecurity