Word: bossing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just can't stand still in this world any more," says William Bolger. "It can change faster than your mind can change." Such pronouncements would be routine from the boss of an ordinary company, but this one comes from the U.S. Postmaster General, talking about what at one time was the bumbling, inefficient, overstaffed, deficit-ridden, money-losing U.S. Postal Service...
Izzy Bleckman was driving the van and Larry Gianneschi was fussing with the coffeepot when they saw a man standing on a highway overpass with a homemade banner draped over the side. They called back to their boss, CBS News Correspondent Charles Kuralt, that they had spotted a potential story for his On the Road series. With the briefest glance at his watch and a map showing their route that day-a 200-mile round trip from Portland, Ore., up to the woods outside Onalaska, Wash.-Kuralt agreed to turn around and find out what the man was doing...
...games, listening to rock-and-roll, and watching video tapes of black-and-white Hollywood feature films from the last century. When a female voice comes on the monitor, sending out an SOS and requesting permission to land, Max becomes really excited--a real live woman. Without asking the boss for permission. Max allows the damaged spaceship to dock. As it turns out, three convicted murderers and political terrorists who have killed all the crew members are flying the damaged ship: An enormous macho brute named Mendaz; a cunning German political terrorist named Gunther; and their beautiful female companion, Maggic...
should also refuse to respond to "one-minute reprimands," another keystone of the one-minute manager, in the way their bosses might expect. After an executive has given a worker a one-minute bawling out, the employee is advised to say: "By being angry or disappointed with me you are really punishing my sincere effort. I would be a much better worker if you would stop reprimanding me and would instead help me learn how to do things right." The startled boss, claim the authors, will probably do just that. But then again, he might tell the employee...
...native Odessa, The Courtyard tells the intermingled life stories of ten families that occupy a single tenement house. No other work of Russian fiction has portrayed the everyday life of ordinary Soviet citizens with such compassion and in such mesmerizing detail. Lvov's villain, the local party boss, and tyrant of the tenement, is as lethal to the human spirit as any hound of hell conjured up by Dostoyevsky...