Word: bossing
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...Rice's spokesman, Colby Cooper, cautions against reading too much into the timing of her defense of her former boss. "She was asked a question, and she's not going to not answer a question if asked," he says...
...Sherzai had continued with his campaign he would have had to step down from his presidential-appointed post as governor - a prestigious and influential position he would be unlikely to regain if he lost to Karzai. A spokesman for Sherzai said his boss "decided Karzai would be a better leader for Afghanistan." Sherzai's campaign manager was stunned. "This is an absolute betrayal of everything we worked on," spluttered Khalid Pashtoon...
...chief of Panama, but only the nominal boss of the canal authority, Martinelli will have little technical control over what will be the nation's most important order of business during his five-year presidency (he is constitutionally limited to one term). That's the Panama Canal expansion, a massive dig that will add a third set of locks able to handle the supersize, "post-Panamax" ships. Those vessels can hold up to 12,000 20-ft.-long containers and are considered the future of commercial-cargo shipping...
...Stressing independence from big business could boost a government's image. In the Chicago Booth/Kellogg School poll, 40% of Americans felt former U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson - previously the boss of Goldman Sachs - had been acting in the interests of the investment bank, and not America...
...look great. This is a living archive; it keeps restoring classic films so they look as pristine as when they premiered. That's thanks in large part to George Feltenstein, whose title is senior vice president of theatrical catalog marketing at Warner Home Video, but who is really the boss of all things old and beautiful in the Turner trove...