Word: bosses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Four years out of college, Caddell took on the same job for Democratic nominee Carter. Though in 1976 Carter fared much better than Caddell's previous boss. Caddell says there were serious problems with that campaign. "We ran it like a giant primary election. I would have felt really bad if we'd lost that...
...that is what he got last week in the most explosive and embarrassing clash of his young Administration. Annoyed by what he saw as a challenge to his authority as the nation's chief foreign policy manager, Secretary of State Alexander Haig publicly questioned a decision by his boss and even hinted that he might resign after a scant two months in office. What riled Haig was Reagan's decision to put Vice President George Bush in charge of "crisis management," though precisely what that meant remained tantalizingly imprecise. Nevertheless Bush's appointment pitted Haig against...
...unyielding hostility to the Soviet Union. He joined the Nixon presidential campaign in 1968 and was soon elevated to chief foreign policy adviser even though he was then only 32. After the election he joined Henry Kissinger's NSC staff, but soon ran afoul of his boss and was eased out. He still does a creditable imitation of Kissinger's guttural accent...
Never, since the outbreak of last summer's labor unrest, had Poland seemed so close to the brink. The union-government dialogue that had repeatedly staved off outright confrontation in recent months was sputtering. Party Boss Stanislaw Kania branded the union challenge "an invitation to suicide." Fears rose that the government might impose martial law, especially if the hard-line faction in the Central Committee took over...
...produced mass-market films-and people finally get used to what they're fed." Universal's Tanen, 49, sees today's audience as "young, cynical, smart-ass and jaded." Paramount's Barry Diller, 39, who has the longest tenure of any current top studio boss (six years), shrugs and says, "We are in a relatively uninteresting period. It goes in cycles...