Word: bosses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...boss of the transition teams, Edwin Meese III, arrived Wednesday morning-personable, affable, cheery. A few hours later he herded 30 or so staffers to the White House for a meeting with their opposite numbers in the Carter Administration. The standing-room-only crowd jammed a small auditorium usually used by the First Family to watch movies. Said one participant: "There was a smattering of rookie winners and losers, the type who muttered snide comments and made noticeable grimaces." But the top men urged harmony. White House Chief of Staff Jack Watson, who is overseeing the transition from the Carter...
Policy. Caspar ("Cap the Knife") Weinberger, head of Reagan's budget policy group, said the new boss would hold federal spending in fiscal 1981, which began Oct. 1, to $620 billion, about $25 billion below the levels contemplated by Carter. Reagan's advisers accepted a proposal by Texas Senator John Tower to add $3 billion to the $157 billion in military spending recommended by Carter this fiscal year. Military pay would be raised an extra 2%, on top of the 11.7% increase already moving toward enactment. Tower also advocated an increase in military outlays of 10% a year...
...have stepped out of one of those 1960s situation comedies on TV featuring a benevolent daddy figure. He has a calming but somehow commanding voice. He rarely asserts his own views, but waits for a consensus among Reagan's advisers and then presents the final decision to the boss. One example: it was Meese who heard all the arguments and then finally urged Reagan to debate Carter in what turned out to be a pivotal point in the campaign...
...power struggle between Poland's newly independent labor movement and the Warsaw regime of Party Boss Stanislaw Kania has become an international suspense serial, one showdown giving way to the next, each resolved in the nick of time. From a shipyard in the Baltic seaport of Gdansk, the drama has radiated across Poland and the East bloc. Now it is affecting Western Europe and the U.S. as well...
...anonymity, Olayan is well known to influential Americans such as Occidental Petroleum Boss Armand Hammer, former Bechtel Chief Stephen Bechtel and Chase Manhattan Bank Chairman David Rockefeller. Says Olayan, whose investment in Chase is second only to Rockefeller's 1.7%: "I make quite sure that my share is always smaller than his." The man in charge of Olayan's U.S. operations, run from its headquarters on Manhattan's Park Avenue, is ex-Treasury Secretary William Simon, who is also one of Ronald Reagan's advisers...