Word: bossing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, 40, Colombia's Minister of Justice; by assassination, when two gunmen on a motorcycle pulled up to his car and shot him eight times with a machine gun; in Bogota. The first Colombian law-enforcement boss to wage a vigorous campaign against his country's powerful drug traffickers, Lara refused to wear a bulletproof jacket despite death threats. One of the two hitmen died immediately when the motorcycle crashed; the other, captured minutes later, claimed that "everything was arranged in Medellin," center of Colombia's $5 billion-a-year drug trade. After...
...doubles. Sixty-four singles players have been invited from all over the country, including Harvard's top two--junior Elizabeth Evans and freshman Kathy Vigna. And in doubles, two Harvard teams will compete in the field of 32: Vigna and sophomore Roberta Hing and Evans and freshman Robin Boss...
...doubles teams will have to win their first two matches to make the quarter finals and gain All-American recognition. Evans and Boss were recently ranked 10th and Hing and Vigna 17th nationally...
...these salaries and bonuses, companies increasingly give stock options as a sweetener in the boss's pay packet. William S. Anderson, who retired in April as chairman of NCR Corp., earned perhaps the highest executive income in the U.S. last year, $13.2 million, largely by exercising stock options he had acquired over a ten-year span...
...seem modest by comparison with what entertainers, athletes and TV personalities earn with their mass appeal. Former Beatle Paul McCartney croons to the tune of an estimated $45 million a year. NBC Anchorman Tom Brokaw makes a reported $2.2 million, almost three times as much as his boss, RCA Chairman Thornton Bradshaw. Running Back Herschel Walker gets $3.9 million over his three-year contract with the New Jersey Generals. Team officials point out that Walker easily earns his salary by boosting ticket sales...