Word: bosses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thin disc of icy debris that forms Saturn's multi-hued rings. Finally, like a pebble in a great celestial slingshot, it was sent hurtling off toward Uranus on a new course created by the powerful pull of Saturn's gravity. NASA's new boss, James Beggs, hailed the flight as "one of the really great scientific achievements of our age." But he refused to commit the Reagan Administration to any new space endeavors, not even a mission to intercept Halley's comet on its reappearance in 1986 for the first time in 76 years...
...during a visit to the U.S.S. Constellation, 55 miles off the California coast. The Commander in Chief allowed that it would "be a kick" to fly in an F-14 jet fighter, though he did not insist on going for a ride. He jokingly ordered the flight boss to "tighten up the interval" of the planes hurtling every few seconds off the deck. He stayed chipper through a precision bombing run that nearly jolted him out of his white-draped deck chair. Addressing the Constellation's 5,000 officers and crew later, Reagan reaffirmed his pledge...
...That three important Teamster officials-Frank Fitzsimmons, then president, William Presser, then boss of Ohio's Teamsters, and his son Jackie-met regularly with the IRS agents between 1972 and 1974. The trio allegedly supplied information about their foes in the union, in the hope of persuading the Government to prosecute these enemies rather than themselves...
...Fitzsimmons' enemies. Three whose names occur in the agents' reports were Jimmy Hoffa, the former Teamsters president whom Nixon had just released from prison on condition that he take no part in running the union until 1980; Harold Gibbons, a Hoffa loyalist who was boss of the Teamsters in St. Louis; and Jay Sarno, who had built two Las Vegas casino hotels with loans from Teamster pension funds...
...cites "personal differences" with his superior. An actress is savaged in a gossip column, and she "resents" it. Mighty civilized behavior. To be sure, these people do not mean a tepid word they say. Deep in their smoking hearts what they yearn to shout is that the former boss and the gossip columnist are the putrescence of the earth, that they have the grace of herring, the brains of rock stars, that their faces would sink a fleet. They do not say so, of course. Instead, their minds flee their true feelings like panicked belles, skittering over perfectly decent invectives...