Word: bosses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flamboyant National Security Adviser seemed intent on humiliating him. Brzezinski stuck so close to Pakistani President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq that Christopher did not even have a chance to present the Pakistani ruler with the official U.S. gift. While Brzezinski clowned and traded quips with the press, Christopher, whose boss, Cyrus Vance, was Brzezinski's bitterest bureaucratic foe, patiently studied his briefing books. Not once did he betray his annoyance. Staunch discretion and a willingness to let others take credit have been the building blocks of Christopher's career. Those qualities, say admirers, have made him an ideal...
From coast to coast, nature reminds everybody who's boss...
...There is no room in Poland today for two separate power centers, thundered Party Boss Stanislaw Kania. Added Politburo Member Kazimierz Barcikowski: "Some extremists look for success not in trade union work but in maintaining a permanent pressure on state authorities. These are very dangerous tactics." Those words were spoken last week at a meeting of regional Communist Party leaders in Warsaw. They appeared to signal the start of a hardening line to ward Solidarity, Poland's federation of independent trade unions, as the government and workers engaged in a perilous new round of labor confrontations...
...command of the bureaucratic vocabulary-"Be reminded: female officers will, according to policy, perform all in-depth searches of female suspects." Howard Hunter (James Sikking) is a SWAT man with a Patton complex; he shoots his way into liquor stores and out of toilet stalls, and warns his boss that "you wouldn't want to be accused of having a bunch of daisies where your cinch belt ought to be." Detective Mick Belker...
...bearded long-distance hauler was described by neighbors as softspoken, reserved and devoted to his wife Sonia, a sometime teacher of handicrafts. His boss called him a "very sensitive man, and if anybody said anything sharp to him, his eyes would fill with tears." For much of the British public, however, there was little doubt that the police had finally caught their man. Outside the magistrate's court in industrial Dewsbury where Sutcliffe was charged, a mob of 1,000 hurled obscenities and shouted...