Word: bossing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...widely seen as a sign of Putin's strength. A vote for Unity was, in most Russian minds, a vote for Putin. Immediately after last week's results were known, the Prime Minister's aides fanned out among the news bureaus of Moscow, driving home the message that their boss was a shoo-in for the presidency. They admitted slight embarrassment about the wildly biased coverage of the campaign on state TV. But, they maintained, Putin's endorsement of Unity was essential...
...government earlier this month ended up accusing Wen Ho Lee of negligently exposing American military secrets, but not of espionage. But it seems nobody told the prosecutors, who spent the first day of Lee's bail hearing Tuesday painting him as public enemy number Wen. First Lee's former boss, Richard Krajcek, testified that Lee admitted to failing an FBI polygraph on which he said he never spied for China. Krajcek went on to describe documents Lee is known to have placed on an insecure computer mainframe as the "crown jewels" of American military secrets. Then a FBI agent said...
...What's he doing at a podium?" her boss, John Moe, wonders...
...GOLDIN NASA boss sees Mars probes screw up. Time to put Pikachu in space...
...troops are silent. Stunned. Amazon, profitable? It's autumn 1999. For years these people have been racing toward a horizon that no one, save perhaps their utopian-futurist boss, even really sees. They know much of the Silicon Valley/Wall Street/media complex believes the commodification of online retailing will lay their company to waste. Amazon the Web's golden child, darling of NASDAQ day traders who raise its market cap even faster than the company bleeds money, is also Amazon the avatar of all that may be ephemeral and fraudulent about the dotcom revolution. Now Bezos has named a date...