Word: bossing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...taking the morning Concorde from Paris in order to put in a full day's work in the states, Dornemann visited more than 20 U.S. companies before choosing his recommended targets: Doubleday publishing and RCA records. The possibility of snagging both was considered so unlikely that he and his boss, Bertelsmann Head Mark Wossner, 48, had called it their "extreme case...
Nonetheless, they turned all their persuasive powers on Publisher Nelson Doubleday and GE Chairman John Welch, offering them hefty prices and even giving the GE boss a lecture on corporate strategy. (Says Wossner: "We told him that music was too far away from electric motors and rockets.") Then Wossner tried another tack. In separate meetings one day last September, he recalls, he gave each American executive the impression that the West Germans could afford to buy only one of the two companies. "Either you sell to us, or we'll go to the others," warned Wossner...
...WSGP International. The head of WSGP's thrift unit is Preston Martin, a former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board and onetime chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board. Gerald Parsky, a Los Angeles lawyer who served as Assistant Treasury Secretary under Simon, is his old boss's general partner and contributes his initials to the company's anagrammatic name. A select group of international investors, including Italy's Fiat-making Agnelli family, has pledged $225 million in capital...
...older ones are even more bathetic than he is. Worse, the mirror reminds Doug that the half-century mark looms: "50! 50 was General MacArthur . . . the school principal . . . 50 was Abby Meltzner, the delicatessen waiter his parents knew, who retired with the shakes. 'Put down the glass, Abby,' his boss had said. 'You have to go home.' 'I'll go home,' Abby replied. 'But I can't put down the glass...
...Force Major General Richard Secord. The director also relied on Iranian Manucher Ghorbanifar as a middleman, despite CIA warnings that Ghorbanifar had been shown to be "dishonest and untruthful." When George learned that Casey nevertheless intended to seek Ghorbanifar's help, he took the rare step of telling his boss, "Bill, I'm not going to run this guy anymore...