Word: bossing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Turnbull who also offers lessons, says chess is "a beautiful objective game" in which was can be like a general or the boss of a company. "The game, he adds, is also " very good for teaching logic...
...like to earn my living at chess. You're your own boss. I spent years getting good and it would be nice if I could make my living at it," Turnbull says...
...gaining broad support for his policies. As one department official puts it: "He's a great fella, but why did he have to shoot his mouth off like that?" Though Clark may be far less vocal, Interior aides expect him to be an aggressive boss, despite his inexperience with environmental issues. On the other hand, no radical shifts in policy are expected. Says one department veteran: "Reagan and Watt didn't have any great philosophical differences, and Clark and Reagan are nearly identical...
...States Pension fund helped a Mafia front man, Allen Click, then only 32, get $62.75 million in loans from the fund in 1974. The trustee advised Glick to see Frank Balistrieri, the Mafia's top man in Milwaukee. The indictment claims that Balistrieri and Joe Aiuppa, the Chicago boss, wielded their influence with other unnamed directors of the Teamsters fund to get the mon ey. Glick used the loans to buy four casinos, including the Star dust and the Fremont...
...discovering radium and polonium, and Britain's Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin in 1964, for deciphering the structure of penicillin and other compounds. McClintock is the first to win unshared honors in medicine and physiology. Said Watson, who has been director at Cold Spring Harbor and hence McClintock's boss for 15 years: "It is not a controversial award. No one thinks of genetics now without the implications of her work...