Word: bossing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cambridge policy requires an employee carrying the AIDS virus to inform his boss, who in turn must inform the city manager and the health commissioner. Consulting with a team of physicians, the health commissioner has the final say on whether the employee can stay at his post...
Along with his boss Andrei Gromyko, Dobrynin looked Kennedy in the eye and denied there were missiles in Cuba. Did he lie? Probably. But he was forgiven because his untruth was within the bounds of diplomatic duplicity. He negotiated enthusiastically for an arms summit with Lyndon Johnson. The night before announcement of the summit, Dobrynin rushed to tell the President that Soviet troops were moving into Czechoslovakia. End of summit. Another deception? Of course, but again he charmed his way back to credibility...
...manager of the shuttle projects office at Marshall, set up a teleconference among engineers and managers at * the Cape, Huntsville and in Utah to discuss the O-ring problem. Before it began, Lovingood got the impression that Thiokol was concerned enough to seek a flight delay. He asked his boss, Stanley Reinartz, shuttle projects manager at Marshall who was then at the Cape, to tell Arnold Aldrich, the overall shuttle manager at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, who was also in Florida, that a flight delay was likely. But Reinartz decided to wait until he had "a full understanding...
...Mulloy took the same position, a commissioner, Air Force Major General Donald Kutyna, observed bitingly, "If this was an airplane and I just had a fight with Boeing over whether the wing could fall off, I think I'd tell the pilot." Reinartz explained that he had informed his boss, William Lucas, director of the Marshall center, who had no direct launch authority. "If you want to report a fire," said Kutyna, "you don't go to the mayor...
Eastern's unions met last week to discuss what Lorenzo might do as head of Eastern. They are plainly suspicious of their new boss. Said John Mazur, spokesman for the pilots' union: "Everyone knows what Frank Lorenzo is and what he does...