Word: bosses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sent them upstairs to the CIA station chief. Minutes passed. No response. The distraught man exclaimed that he would be shot if they did not do something quickly. Then a CIA man, curious about the fuss, took one look at the card and promptly rushed to talk to his boss. Only then did the station chief come down and, with proper apologies, invite the defector upstairs...
...years following World War II, the French Communists regularly won 20% or more of the vote and dominated a section around Paris known as the Red Belt. But in parliamentary elections in March the Communists got just 9.8% of the vote. French Party Boss Georges Marchais, who polled 15% when he ran for President in 1981, has decided not to run in the 1988 elections...
...marketing strategies, the finite way in which success (or failure) is easily measured. With Chrysler on the rebound, Iacocca harbors impossible dreams of driving his company past Ford to take the second spot behind General Motors. Nothing, in fact, would please Iacocca more than overtaking his old boss and nemesis, Henry Ford II, the man who sought to end his career after a bloody power struggle in 1978. Always one to hold grudges and flaunt success, Iacocca recently bought Ford's first house in Grosse Point Farms, Mich., on a street where many Ford family members live...
...think your boss is inhuman? A real automaton who never lets up, never forgets the slightest error you make? Then just wait until a computer takes over as manager...
...with all the others, then reward the speedy ones and warn the laggards. Not all employees find the surveillance oppressive. In fact many, particularly the hardest workers, prefer the new evaluative technique because they see it as a matter-of-fact measurement of their output as opposed to a boss's personal opinion. Says R. Douglas MacIntyre, a senior vice president of Management Science America, which develops monitoring programs: "We are letting management make better, quicker decisions based on facts, not emotions...