Word: bossing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...school basketball superstar, shocked and disturbed the city. Groups of white thugs have been attacking the homes of black and Hispanic families who dared to live among them. At city hall, the confrontation is more formalized and less violent, but it continues to muck up the municipal machinery: Democratic Boss Edward Vrdolyak and his bloc of 29 city council members, none of whom are black, have only very occasionally suspended their full-tilt feud with Mayor Harold Washington and his bloc of 21, of whom 16 are black...
...taxes, the initial challenge is Reagan's. He must make up his mind what he wants and then fight for it. Treasury Secretary Regan gently prodded his boss in that direction, stating in a letter to the President that "the achievement of fundamental tax reform . . . will require extraordinary leadership." Congressional leaders put the point more emphatically. Said House Budget Committee Chairman James Jones, an Oklahoma Democrat: "Tax reform or any kind of tax bill is unlikely to succeed unless the President puts all the force of his personality and office behind it." Democrats also insisted that if Reagan expects...
...active in the American Federation of Government Employees, eventually becoming president of the chapter representing Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. His former boss, Dick McGarvey, describes him as a "tough negotiator" and as "a good friend." Schroeder was also a leader in the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic fraternal society...
These are the same pranksters who four years ago made a rowdy success of the lovable Gilbert and Sullivan warhorse The Pirates of Penzance. Then as now, Papp was the producer, Wilford Leach the director, William Elliott the music supervisor and conductor, and Pop Singer Linda Ronstadt was boss soprano in charge of provoking doleful predictions that she could not possibly handle an operatic lead...
Tartikoff began to prove he could do better when, at 23, he went to work as director of advertising and promotion at WLS-TV in Chicago. He impressed his boss, Lewis Erlicht (now president of ABC Entertainment), with successful gimmicks like "Gorilla My Dreams Week," a festival of ape movies. Fred Silverman, then ABC'S programming chief, soon hired him, but Tartikoff left after a year to join NBC. Silverman later became president of NBC and promoted Tartikoff to the top programming slot in January...