Word: bossing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...squabble with Party Chairman Charles Manatt, and Reubin Askew bowed out when his mother-in-law died. At the first stop in Atlanta, Gary Hart insinuated that John Glenn was a closet Republican. Glenn, meanwhile, suggested that Walter Mondale was a big-spending liberal. In Chicago, Party Boss Edward Vrdolyak boycotted a $500-a-plate breakfast because of his feud with Mayor Harold Washington, a battle so bitter that the Democrats' once assured ability to "deliver" Cook County can now be called into question. A lunch in St. Louis was canceled for lack of interest, and many seats were...
Assistant City Manager Richard C. Rossi asked for "continued good health to the city leaders so they can continue their good work in the city." But his boss, City Manager Robert W. Healy, said he had no requests...
Perhaps the most troubling issue for Washington reporters is the growing use of leaks by Government sources. The term leak implies a breach of security and calls to mind the image of a disgruntled lower-level employee seeking to embarrass his boss. In fact, in almost every modern Administration, the majority of "leaks" have come from top-rank presidential aides, Cabinet members and other senior officials who want to get information or a point of view across to the public. Last week, for example, Reagan's top aides indicated their displeasure with Martin Feldstein, chairman of the Council...
Mary Cunningham is co-owner, with her husband William Agee, of Semper Enterprises Inc., a venture capital and consulting firm. She formed many of her opinions about the press three years ago after reading numerous stories about her relationship with Agee, then her boss at Bendix Corp...
...applies his film-school expertise to Oliver Stone's script to fashion a big, bloody, entertaining tragicomedy that functions both as tabloid journalism (The Rise and Fall of a Drug King) and as cautionary fable. Tony Montana may be exterminated by the hired guns of a rival narcotics boss, but he is effectively dead long before that, fallen not into the gutter but facedown in a candy mountain of cocaine. He had broken the crime lord's first commandment-Don't get high on your own supply-and become a zombie before the first machine-gun blast...