Word: bossing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bush, orchestrated a cover-up. The Bushes adamantly denied the accusation. Hatfield, it now seems, was doing some covering up of his own. St. Martin's Press recalled the book when a newspaper report revealed that the author is on parole after being convicted of trying to have his boss killed, a charge St. Martin's said it had confirmed. Hatfield initially maintained that he was being confused with someone of the same name, but then stopped commenting, on his lawyers' advice. Maybe he could write a memoir instead: Unfortunate...
Well aware of polls that show voters fed up with President Clinton's personal scandals, Gore subtly distanced himself from his boss...
...book club. "I wrote it while working full time," says Clarke, who now administers Time Inc.'s editorial-diversity program. "I used weekends and nights, and it always helped when editors took vacations." After Oprah's announcement, the novel shot up Amazon.com's best-seller list. Says current boss, Time Inc. executive editor Jose Ferrer: "My wife warned me that now I'll be working for Breena." Don't worry, Joe. She takes vacations...
Other student workers aren't so responsible. "Too many times I've had kids come in to school at 10:30 a.m. saying they had to close up at work the night before," says assistant principal Clark. "Students," he says, "find it harder to say no to their boss than to the school." Take, for example, Darrin Cayton, a senior who is desperately trying to turn his life around after wasting his first three years of high school. Darrin realizes he wants to go to college, so he's working hard in his classes, hoping to do well enough...
...will employ students for no more than 20 hours a week (Clark would like the limit to be 16) and will not let students work past 11 p.m. on school nights. Clark also wants employers to assign each student a "workplace mentor"--someone at work, maybe even the boss, who looks after the student's academic life, makes sure he or she is going to school on time and is making good grades, and who can help a student get reduced hours if need be. The initial response of business people has been positive, and Clark hopes School First will...