Word: bossing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...week's announcement, the Secretary had a private meeting with Clinton and assured him, "I have no problem with strong men around me." Sensitive to concerns that he has a tendency to self-aggrandize, Holbrooke says emphatically that there won't be any tension between him and his new boss. "I'm looking forward to being part of the team," he says. But just so everyone understands what that means, Albright met with him for an hour last week to outline what she expects from her new ambassador and explain how she conducted herself when she held the job: carefully...
...swathed in conspiracy; it begged to be suspected of as much far-fetched chicanery as it imputed to all those Trilateral geezers who look like Clark Clifford. Take our hero, Fox Mulder--his first name is the same as the network that owns the show. Mulder's FBI boss, the skinheaded Skinner, is a dead ringer for former Fox chief Barry Diller. And just what is the name of the show? The X Files, as the logo clearly states? Or The X-Files, as the publicity indicates...
...them. You're losing sales every day because you can't find new workers to step up output. You're not even sure you can hold on to your present employees; competitors are dangling offers in front of them. You need help--talented, experienced help, if possible--fast. So, boss, what...
...that we could join them in the fantasy chaos. It's no accident that our favorite side characters are not the delectably evil Cancer Man (the architect of an imminent armageddon that FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully must stop) or even the beloved, bald Walter Skinner (their boss at the agency) but the Lone Gunmen, three earnest dorks who sometimes fight the future by hacking into a computer or peering into a microscope at a heretofore unknown virus...
Sensitive to concerns that he has a tendency to self-aggrandize, Holbrooke says emphatically that there won't be any tension between him and his new boss. "I'm looking forward to being part of the team," he says. But just so everyone understands what that means, Albright met with him for an hour last week to outline what she expects from her new ambassador and explain how she conducted herself when she held the job: carefully...