Word: bossing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Vigna--seeded ninth in the field of 16 contestants--began her quest for the singles crown by upsetting the number one seed, Princeton's Emily Schuette, in the opening round. She then rolled past teammate Robin Boss and William & Mary's Juliet Kaczmarek (seeded third) before edging last year's top seed, Meghan McMahon of Yale, in the finals...
While Weinberger was still in Brussels, Reagan convened the National Security Council Planning Group last Tuesday to reach a final decision. Deputy Defense Secretary William Taft, sitting in for his boss, repeated the Pentagon case that there was no need at the moment for a new proposal, and that the terms had to be more favorable to the U.S. But Chief of Naval Operations James Watkins, representing the JCS, said the Joint Chiefs did not find the plan detrimental to U.S. military interests. Having put the numbers through the & wringer, he said, the military brass found them acceptable...
Shultz was also arguing forcefully for a new plan. There was, he told his boss, the "right political dynamic" to make the offer now. "I cannot go to Moscow without this," he reportedly said, "or you will be the one to look bad." When Reagan finally gave his approval the new instructions were quickly sent by cable to Geneva, and the outlines of the offer were incorporated in a letter from Reagan that Ambassador Arthur Hartman delivered in Moscow. As one State Department official put it, "Once it was out in two capitals, the Pentagon would not be able...
Buscetta occasionally stood up in the cavernous courtroom to point at defendants he claimed to have known as Mafia members. He identified Gaetano Badalamenti as a onetime capo, or boss, of the ruling Mafia commission in Sicily. Badalamenti, the key defendant, stared back impassively. Gaetano Mazzara's bemused smile turned to a look of disgust when he was picked out at the crowded defense tables and identified as the American distributor for the imported heroin. More such fingering is expected as Buscetta continues to testify in a complex trial that could last as long as six months. Defense attorneys will...
...pension fund trustee, Williams said, he helped arrange the casino loan for the late Nick Civella, boss of the Kansas City Mafia for about 30 years. In return, Civella paid him $1,500 a month until Williams was elected Teamsters president in 1981. Although Williams said he did favors for Civella at the direction of his "superiors," including the late Teamsters Bosses Jimmy Hoffa and Frank Fitzsimmons, he described Civella, who died of lung cancer in 1983, as "a very personal friend." Civella, said Williams, "was a deep thinker. He assisted me in my career, and I provided some help...