Word: bosses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Blade: Oh, good and bad, good and bad. Stock market's up, Thank God, but commodities are down, damn it. Unfortunately, my secretary committed suicide, but luckily the boss gave me a promotion...
...Management Consultant Robert Bramson's nosology of office malcontents and combatants [March 17], I add the memo writers, a species especially pesky to bosses. The memo is such a potent weapon. It gets under the skin and demands attention. I should know. My boss replied with a pink slip...
Kabul is waiting for something to happen-riots, guerrilla action, a tightening of curfew, the replacement of Moscow's puppet party boss Babrak Karmal, army or police mutiny, perhaps an even more overt Soviet takeover. However ill founded, however paranoid, the constant rumors have a reality of their own in shaping the war psychosis of the occupied city. The men seen in the streets with guns, the façade of power, are Afghans. The real occupiers, the Soviets, are invisible, except for their helicopters, the jet contrails, the daily barrage of Pravda-phrased media propaganda, the Cyrillic script...
Boeing's boss can also be a persuasive salesman. His was one of the first American companies to do business with the Chinese, who ordered ten 707s in 1972. Several weeks ago, as the Pentagon was coming down to the wire on the cruise missile contract, Wilson left for Peking to deliver the first of three 7475P aircraft costing $60 million each. He was on his way home via Hong Kong, London and New York City when the Pentagon announced its decision...
...horseshoe-shaped table in the board room on the twelfth floor of the Ford Motor Co. headquarters in Dearborn, Mich., last week, 18 normally staid directors gave out three loud hurrahs. The first was for Henry Ford II, who retired after nearly 35 years as the company's boss and was succeeded as chairman by Philip Caldwell, 60. The second was for Donald Petersen, 53, who replaced Caldwell as president. The third was for the automaker's acquittal that same day in Winamac, Ind., on unprecedented criminal charges of reckless homicide in the deaths of three teen...