Word: bossing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is the same man who, according to his former budget director, fails to grasp even the basic arithmetic of the federal budget. This is the same man whose former chief of staff proclaimed himself part of a "shovel brigade," perpetually cleaning up after the boss. This is the same man who nevertheless placed his trust in a janitorial incompetent, someone more adept at grave-digging than damage control...
...payday approaches, a government van rolls up. Your boss has just called immigration and set you and your family up for deportation rather than pay you what you've earned. You are sent back to Mexico with only fatigue and abuse to show for your pursuit of an elusive American Dream...
...though, I decided it would be subtler and more powerful if I just referred to myself indirectly every couple of lines through female characters who could say things like: "Rutger Fury--the sexiest, jivingest hunk of a Party Boss ever." That way I could leave it up to the viewer's imagination...
...Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) charged Gates with trying to evade responsibility for "skimpy, scanty and really misleading" testimony that he said former CIA boss William J. Casey presented to the committee last year...
Bobbie Cooper, a communications manager for MCI, the long-distance phone company, had just returned from her Thanksgiving holiday when she was called into her boss's office. "We are eliminating your position," Cooper was told. At first the message did not quite register. "So where am I going?" she asked. The explanation that followed was painfully clear: she was being fired. Recalls Cooper: "It hit me like a ton of bricks. I was in a state of shock." Cooper, 44, had worked for IBM and one of its subsidiaries for 24 years. She was transferred to MCI when...