Word: bosses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...editor had made the changes on the directions of the editor-in-chief. In his mind, one story and one summer reporter were not worth a fight with his boss...
...granted Bork a B.A. in less than two years, Columbia University refused to send him a journalism school application. So he turned instead to Chicago's law school. The first classroom professor he encountered there was Edward Levi, an antitrust scholar who later became Attorney General and Bork's boss under Gerald Ford. "He was the most fantastic teacher I ever knew," Bork says. "He took the big ideas in the law and played with them, always by indirection." Levi's technique was to prove abrasively why more obvious explanations were wrong, an approach Bork adopted...
...spends his days in a tree house atop a 160-foot beech. He is quite mad. His physicist wife explains the split between his secret existence and his official report: "It was his fantasy life that drew him to the work, and it was his desire to please the boss that made him write...
That Darke's boss is an unnamed and perhaps female Prime Minister of Britain is not cause for broad winks. Many of the plot turns in the novel may seem improbable and even fanciful, but the feelings expressed by the characters and their sense of time (running up, running down and running out) are, without exception, genuine. There is nothing titillating or vulgar about the PM's confession of missing Charles Darke because of loving him. And McEwan's humor is never simply topical. "I can't go anywhere alone," says the government leader of the impossible romance. "Bodyguards apart...
...agency's plan calls for a dramatic return to the banking business by A. Robert Abboud, former chairman of First Chicago and ex-president of Occidental Petroleum. Abboud, 58, known during a stormy 29-year career as an exacting boss, is spearheading a campaign to raise $500 million and gain control of First City, a holding company that operates 61 banks in Texas and one in South Dakota. Abboud, who will become chairman, is kicking in $5 million of his personal funds. His group, which had been conducting secret negotiations with the FDIC since November, beat out at least three...