Word: bosses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heating up with alarming ferocity. In its harshest warning to date to Poland's Communist leaders, Moscow last week declared that an "unbridled" campaign of "rabid propaganda" against the Soviet Union had been allowed to reach "dangerous limits" with impunity. Delivered personally to Polish Party Boss Stanislaw Kania by Soviet Ambassador Boris Aristov, the message called on Warsaw to take "radical steps" to curb the "malicious propaganda and actions hostile toward the Soviet Union...
...price cuts, Pan Am hoped to reverse almost a decade of near continuous losses that have rolled up $1 billion in debts for the carrier, forced it to sell its headquarters building in New York City and its Intercontinental Hotels subsidiary and finally, in August, to name a new boss, C. Edward Acker, 52. The successful chief of Air Florida, Acker replaced William T. Seawell as Pan Am's chairman...
Stockman kept up the pressure last week in a series of meetings between Reagan and his Cabinet and economic advisers. By Wednesday afternoon, when he and Weinberger squared off for a 2½-hour showdown session with Reagan in the Cabinet Room of the White House, the budget boss seemed to have the Defense Secretary outflanked. Reagan sat with Vice President George Bush on his right and Secretary of State Alexander Haig on his left; Weinberger sat across the table in a chair with wide spaces on either side. At a picture-taking session before the meeting, a reporter asked...
...easy being a working mother-especially if your boss happens to be Louis B. Mayer and your job category is movie star. It is especially not easy if one of your adopted children turns out to be the spoiled and charmless brat portrayed in this silly movie about the domestic life of Joan Crawford. The sympathy one is supposed to feel for the poor little rich waif (played at different ages by Mara Hobel and Diana Scarwid) slides away from her and onto the fashionably padded shoulders of the actress, whom Faye Dunaway's makeup artist, Lee C. Harman...
After an entire season of publicly being second-guessed by his boss, Michael summoned reporters to complain about Steinbrenner's threats to fire him. A onetime Yankee shortstop, coach, farm-system manager and general manager of the club under Steinbrenner, Michael, 43, persisted in holding to the old-fashioned notion that the manager in the dugout, not the owner in a VIP box, knows best when to call on a relief pitcher. Said Michael: "It's not fair that he criticizes me and threatens to fire me all the time. I'd rather he do it than...