Word: bossing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that strange modern cacophony, the sudden chorus of digital wristwatch alarms. From the audience, Helen McDonald (The Life and Times of Tondaleah Rosponowitz) asked, "Why are all these authors here? Is Key West the Paris of the '20s, the Tangier of the '60s?" Residents Thomas Sanchez (Rabbit Boss) and Philip Caputo (DelCorso's Gallery), who had been soberly addressing the topic "War and Peace hi the American Novel," considered the reasons. The true answers He in the words written in Key West, in the poems of Wallace Stevens, or Hemingway's To Have and Have...
...candidacy last fall, or by December at the latest. They feared that a delay would simply not seem believable to the public. Reagan insisted on late January, figuring that the longer he could keep speculation alive, the more public interest he would build. Advisers now concede that the boss's political instincts, as usual, were keener than theirs: timing the announcement a few days after the State of the Union speech got the campaign started with the maximum splash...
...beaming President-elect vs. haggard, wan incumbent. But Reagan, now the oldest President in history, seems to have grown more robust since his Inauguration. After three years his optimism appears undimmed, his faith in bedrock conservative notions unshaken. "His perspective is unusual," explains one White House aide of the boss's remarkable equanimity. "Someone 35 years old sees hills and valleys every day, but the President just sees dips in the road. He rides above...
...much of Rome was a rubbish heap and wild pigs rooted in the Forum, Venice had never been invaded; its form of government - by council and committee, hardly a democracy in the modern sense but a vast improvement, in point of rights and liberty, on the feudal or city-boss regimes that prevailed elsewhere in Europe - had scarcely changed since the 14th century, and would continue until 1797, when Napoleon abolished...
...boss, Jobs was often obdurate and capricious. When Mac's sound quality failed to meet his standards, he threatened to remove the feature unless engineers corrected the problem over a weekend. The sound, which is provided for games and computer music, stayed. When his group failed to make progress fast enough, he fired off irate memos and abrasively talked down middle managers. Halfway through the project he demoralized the designers by demanding that they produce an entirely new look. He also irritated engineers by refusing to let them show Macintosh to friends, even though he was giving special peeks...