Word: bossing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...women who work the graveyard shift sneak in for a cigarette. Says a cocktail waitress: "We're supposed to go to designated areas for our breaks, and otherwise the bosses want us out on the floor all the time." "The bosses" is the Las Vegas equivalent of "the Man," covering every rank of power from a floor supervisor to a casino manager to the Mob to God. The bosses are, almost without exception, men. "Dorks, all of them," says a cashier. "A boss asked me out last week. We'd go to the mountains, he said. You guessed...
...side. But slender, balding Michael Deaver is a man who cares little about presidential policy and often slips out of secret White House briefings, bored. He worries far less about Soviet missiles and accusations of Administration sleaziness than he does about how those issues-and all others-threaten his boss. For Mike Deaver, at 46, has essentially one aim in life, and that is serving Ronald Reagan. For 18 years, after he stopped selling IBM supplies in Bakersfield, Calif, and got into politics, Deaver has been confidant, protector, image polisher and keeper of state and family secrets. Now he knows...
Change is also sweeping the aisles of Sears' 806 retail stores in all 50 states, where some 39 million American families shop. Under Chairman and Chief Executive Edward R. Telling, Sears* boss since 1978, the company has launched a $1.7 billion capital-improvement program to build 62 new stores, remodel 600 others and update the company's whole approach to selling. By October, Sears will have 107 "stores of the future," which will depart sharply from its traditional selling places. They have a friendlier, more welcoming look than the Sears stores of old, with more aisles, lower ceilings...
...care and feeding of Sears' suppliers is an art. This year 80 of the best suppliers received awards at the company's annual "Partners in Progress" dinner, presided over by Merchandising Boss Brennan. The winners of trophies and crystal prisms are not just big companies. This year Gear, Inc., of New York City, with Sears just since 1983, was praised for the stylish looks of its country-furniture designs, now on display in half of Sears stores. Gear earned design royalties in 1983 on the $500 million of its creations sold by Sears and other stores...
Elliot Richardson, who was Nixon's Attorney General when he was forced out in the Saturday Night Massacre of 1973, sees his ex-boss as a President who succeeded in making the U.S. "adapt to the realities of change" but was "brought down by fatal flaws in his character." Says Richardson, who is now campaigning for a Senate seat in Massachusetts: "We all have the defects of our qualities. Nixon resented those more fortunate than he. He was insecure. But that was what propelled him to the presidency...