Word: bosses
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After the defeat, Brock was as bitter as his boss, lashing out at Bush's alleged distortions of the Dole record. "We're sick to the gills with this kind of tactic," said Brock. "We don't have to wallow in the mud with them to answer their charges." (In fact, the attacks were not so much untrue as they were cheap: Dole has indeed waffled about whether some new revenues might be necessary to tackle the deficit issue. But so at times has Bush.) Behind the scenes, Dole accused his minions of losing the contest for him. "When things...
...actions within the letter of the law, they certainly have not followed the spirit. This time, the union has urged Harvard to remain neutral during the election. The union argues that any, and all, administration input is a form of coercion, since employees may feel pressured to heed their boss's word and not endanger their...
...straight shooters who are persuasive without being abrasive. To be sure, the trim, five-mile-a-day jogger, one of the few chief executives in the drug business with an M.D. degree (and a mere two weeks of business education from a Harvard seminar), is a demanding boss. "When the phone rings on a Sunday morning, you know it's Vagelos," says Edward Scolnick, president of Merck Labs. But the chairman also wins high marks for staying in touch with his staff. He keeps his spartan office open to any of his 32,000 employees with a complaint...
Both North and his former boss at the National Security Council, Rear Adm. John Poindexter, are targets of an investigation by the independent counsel in the Iran-Contra affair...
...Nobody likes it. Even the boss doesn't know why they did it," said dining hall worker John Coelho. As soon as someone spills food on the carpet, he said, "It's going to smell...