Word: bossing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Among the Clearys' teammates this weekend was Assistant Coach Kevin Hampe '73 (below, center right), who teamed with his boss in a defensive painting. 'It's important to give him the puck,' joked Hampe. "I've never seen anybody handle the puck the way he hardles it" he added...
...prerogatives. Predicts one of his former colleagues: "He'll try to do it all himself. He can't stand sharing the limelight." That could mean that Regan will tend to keep other advisers away from the President. At worst, eager-to-please Regan could wind up telling the boss only what he thinks the President wants to hear...
...party, the PRI, since 1920. The PRI (Party of the Institutional Revolution) began as the centrist party which emerged from the tumult of the Mexican revolution and has steadily consolidated power ever since. Its leadership has never hesitated to cajole or co-opt the wayward peasant leader or union boss. If all else fails, the PRI retains a powerful ability to repress its more intransigent opponents...
...boss, the First Lady is a stern taskmaster. Behind her back, some underlings mockingly call her Nana. When traveling, she has members of the entourage paged at restaurants to ask trivial questions, and phones them at home with petty requests. Even Deaver is cowed by the First Lady: last year, having incompletely quit smoking, he felt obliged to hide his cigarettes from her. A West Wing official who gets along well with her admits that she is sometimes charmless with her subordinates. "She is a demanding person in that she knows what she wants, she wants the best...
Other corporations fail to follow Burr's lead, he says, because "they think humankind is lazy and bestial and won't do anything unless you beat them to death. We live with a 'boss' structure. But we've proved that if you give people space, room and freedom, you can get trustworthy behavior...