Word: bossing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Tipper Gore, wife of the Vice President, has organized a first-ever White House conference on mental health, which takes place next week. Gore, who disclosed in the run-up to the conference that she was treated for depression in the early '90s, has prodded her husband's boss to ask Congress to spend more money to treat the mentally ill. President Clinton backs a bill in Congress to force employers to help too by providing equal insurance coverage for mental and physical health. (Currently, insurance plans can charge higher co-payments for psychiatric visits than for other medical care...
...Case has that covered too. In the same week as his Microsoft deposition, the AOL boss took time out to appear on Capitol Hill to make an impassioned argument for government regulation in the cable-Internet industry. His pitch: the FCC needs to make sure that the little guys--which in his book include AOL--don't suffer if proprietorial cable services like AT&T's At Home or Time Warner's RoadRunner end up owning the online gateway. "It's a battle," Case said, "between good and evil." The FCC isn't entirely convinced, but it has agreed...
Secondly, we voluntarily planned Freddie's death. My aunt did not plan to kill hundreds of hogs. Her boss told her to. She merely complied and does not feel guilty, because, in the words of psychologist Stanley Milgram, "the person entering an authority system no longer views himself as acting out of his own purposes but rather comes to see himself as an agent for executing the wishes of another person...
...were doing--especially from pesky reporters. When I asked a designer for id, which makes Doom and Quake, if he would answer a few questions, he said sure. But when he heard that they were about violence in video games, he said I'd have to talk to his boss, id president Todd Hollenshead. When I headed off to find Hollenshead, I was intercepted by a public relations official who said that nobody from id would be available. Would I like to talk to someone from Activision, the company that distributes Quake, instead? O.K. But it turned out Activision didn...
Rather, these learning centers are imbued with the mentality that customer knows worst. Where else but in higher education could a business charge $30,000 for its service and then have the nerve to turn around and tell you who's boss...