Word: bossing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mondale's backers are counting on the convention hoopla, which will be led by hundreds of delegates from organized labor, to give their boss a badly needed boost in the opinion polls. Says one Democratic National Committee official: "We have a real opportunity to bring Mondale within five points of Reagan after the convention." That may be wishful thinking, but a well-managed convention could convey the take-charge image that Mondale has failed to project...
...video games. Losses hit $539 million last year. Not even TV commercials featuring M*A*S*H Superstar Alan Alda could revive Atari. Last week Warner Communications, which has owned Atari since 1976, gave up on turning the company around and sold it. The principal buyer and new boss: Jack Tramiel, 56, a blunt, balding executive whose adage is "Business...
About that time Secretary of State George Shultz drops by for a private gab with the boss, who shows him the letter. George likes it and says the President ought to send it. So Ron gets it typed up on the azure linen stationery, embossed with the Presidential Seal, that Presidents have used for more than 100 years...
...collection, Father Seldom Knows Best, will hit the racks next year. In those, along with a five-day-a-week radio call-in show and his "Off the Beat" column, he seems always to be reversing 9-to-5 clichés. Just before a meeting with his woman boss, for instance, he spilled hot tea on his pants. "I stand in front of her desk," he wrote, "my cheeks are flaming. My thighs are steaming." When his twelve-year-old son's science project turns out to be playing rock music to the house plants, the consequences...
...working for the New Holland farm machinery company when it was taken over by Sperry in 1947; he kept that operation running profitably during the 1960s when the company's Univac division was bungling its head-to-head computer competition with IBM. As Sperry's boss, he more than tripled revenues to $5.6 billion, pushed for high-tech sales to the Soviet Union, expanded ex ports so that 44% of Sperry's business was overseas, then saw foreign currency and interest fluctuations curtail company earnings before his retirement...