Word: bossing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been fortunate enough to have been kind of independent at times working under [B.U. Director of Sports Information] Ed Carpenter. During the winter, he would be busy with hockey, so being responsible for basketball, I got a good idea of what's it's like being my own boss...
...Administration. The group met repeatedly with environmentalists, industrialists and key lawmakers but gave them no hint of what its members were thinking. The President's advisers then fought it out among themselves at six meetings of the Domestic Policy Council. EPA administrator William Reilly pressed for stringent measures; budget boss Richard Darman argued that the cost did not justify the health and environmental benefits. Bush attended three of those meetings and called environmentalists and industrialists into the White House to present their cases directly to him. Finally, White House chief of staff John Sununu took three 30-page single-spaced...
...clout in Hollywood, Martin Davis, 62, would never be mistaken for a movie mogul. He is a soft-spoken man who clearly lacks the bravura of his former boss, producer Samuel Goldwyn, for whom Davis once worked as an office boy and press agent. But Davis is a man in a hurry. He leapfrogged to the top of Gulf & Western over two more senior executives after the death of conglomerateur Charles Bluhdorn. It took Davis just six years to transform Gulf & Western from an unwieldy, 1960s-style pastiche of unrelated companies into the more focused media giant that he renamed...
...sudden fondness for controversial reactors? The new Energy Secretary, James Watkins, is strongly pro-nuke, as is his boss, George Bush. So is Bush's chief of staff, John Sununu, the former New Hampshire Governor who championed Seabrook against objections of his neighboring Governor, Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts. While Sununu has moved to the White House, Dukakis still sits in Boston, 40 miles from Seabrook...
That speech drew a standing ovation from virtually the entire assemblage. Even President Mikhail Gorbachev applauded briefly. More significantly, the new KGB boss, Vladimir Kryuchkov, told reporters after Vlasov's moving outburst that the new Soviet legislature would consider following the U.S. fashion and naming a committee to oversee intelligence operations...