Word: bossing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Elusiveness suits Dreben fine. "He is not a person who seeks the limelight. If he had a choice, he would rather be, as the Japanese say, behind the screen," says Dreben's administrative boss and close friend. Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky...
Like former Interior Secretary James Watt, his friend and onetime boss, Arnett can seldom resist a wisecrack. Nor is the strapping (6 ft. 5 in.), gregarious Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish and Wildlife and Parks shy about his enthusiasm for life in the outdoors. As he showed a visitor around his office, he sported a tie decorated with kangaroos and held in place by an elephant clasp. His 260-lb. frame was partially cloaked by a casual cardigan sweater adorned with a pin that said DUCKS. Says Arnett: "I like the camaraderie of hunting. I like sleeping...
...Fedders and his boss, SEC Chairman John Shad, are cautious about a separate insider trading proposal before the Senate. Sponsored by New York Republican Alfonse D'Amato, it would strengthen penalties but also greatly broaden the legal definition of persons considered to be insiders. While that group is now limited to such individuals as company executives and major shareholders, the D'Amato proposal could apply to anyone from a secretary to a board chairman to a journalist who had inside information about a company. Last week Fedders warned Senators that a squabble over definitions could delay or even...
...employees, 60% of them women, work in the final assembly stage, where the tasks are more complicated. Canon's philosophy exhorts workers to avoid the "nine wastes," which include such sins as excess inventory or defects of any kind. The results are nearly picture perfect. Factory Boss Toshio Endo boasts that in a batch of 470,000 lens mounts produced at the plant over the past three months, only two were defective...
...raised on her own from infancy after her first husband's death would simply let something fall on his head. Mickey, her current spouse, cannot disagree; he feels unworthy of Jeanie, probably with cause. He drives a refrigerated truck and sells stolen meat at the behest of his boss, a remote functionary of the Philadelphia Mob. Mickey finds himself obliged to soothe his wife's pain in two ways: by coming up with the $6,000 or so it will take for a mahogany coffin and a dignified funeral and by begging his underworld connections to find...