Word: bossing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seemed, had not passed on the Budget Committee's request to Spinney, who after his February performance had been shifted to another assignment. (In fact, the Pentagon bureaucracy has introduced a new classification for data that are not to be shown to Spinney: NOSPIN.) Spinney's boss David Chu sought to rationalize the Defense Department's refusal to comply with Congress's request. "The concerns I have are with the techniques employed [by Spinney] and with the ability of a single individual to understand the implications of what's happening," Chu said. Fumed Jones: "This...
...about a Bronx cab driver's being coached to sing like a country boy? That's what Dolly Parton, 37, is doing to Sylvester Stallone, 37, in Rhinestone, which just started filming in Manhattan. Parton plays a singer in a honky-tonk bar who bets her boss that she can turn anyone into a country-and-western star. Enter You-Know-Who. Country Rocky soon learns how to belt it out not in the ring but on the stage. Off the set, Parton says she has been learning a few things from her health-conscious costar. After...
...Mainz. "On the question of truth, Luther is a lifesaver for Christians." While Western Protestants still express embarrassment over Luther's anti-Jewish rantings or his skepticism about political clergy, Communist East Germany has turned him into a secular saint because of his influence on German culture. Party Boss Erich Honecker, head of the regime's Luther-jahr committee, is willing to downplay Luther's antirevolutionary ideas, using the giant figure to bolster national pride...
Crimson second seed Robin Boss also bowed, falling in a three setter to nationally ranked Julie Park of Dartmouth...
...responsibilities. "I have to be very careful with how I spend my time," he says, "and I have to be very sensitive to establish ways to keep several projects in motion at the same time." Managers of the departments Saltonstall supervises have all been to quick to praise their boss efforts and innovations...