Word: bosses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...notion was rejected, Mike explains, because "an experienced person coming in here just wouldn't be able to under stand it. Besides, we wanted to keep things in the family." The idea of anointing just one of the young Knesses as boss also had drawbacks. "If we'd made any one of the boys general manager and turned him loose, there'd have been conflicts." In stead, the elder Knesses decided to pass along their own managerial troika-as well as a set of rules to make it work. Kerry, 26, Russ, 26, and Paul, 25, each...
Three years ago, when Land introduced Polavision to an amazed stockholders' meeting, Polaroid had been one of the great success stories of corporate America. Founder and boss for 43 years, Harvard Dropout Edwin Land is an inventive genius ranking not far behind Thomas Edison. He personally holds 524 U.S. patents. Starting with the development of Polaroid filters to stop the harsh reflection of automobile headlights, Land moved on to nonglare Polaroid sunglasses and World War II antiaircraft goggles...
With the additional resources promised by his new boss, Manning hopes to beef up the Atlantic's coverage of science, business and law. Zuckerman promises to steer clear of editorial matters, but even Manning admits: "He's a very active, aggressive guy. I expect we'll be on the phone with...
...fire Sears just when his campaign manager pulled off his triumph at the Nashua Telegraph debate. Chipper and confident, Sears had no reason to think he was being axed when he and two lieutenants-National Political Director Charles Black and Press Secretary Jim Lake-were summoned to the boss's suite at a Holiday Inn in Manchester, N.H. There they encountered Reagan and Casey; off to one side sat Nancy Reagan, looking distressed. Reagan came right to the point. He handed Sears a press release announcing his resignation. Stifling his surprise, Sears...
...real-life boss who found himself with a secretarial pool consisting of self-starters like Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton would be afraid to make waves. But in Nine to Five, which the three are shooting together in Hollywood, their reel-life boss is so tyrannical they spend perfectly good clock-watching time fantasizing ways to get him into hot water. Some ways are slightly extreme: rat poison in the coffee Tomlin is required to fetch him, for example. But the movie is played for laughs, and in the end stenovirtue triumphs when the underlings reorganize the office...