Word: bossing
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...phone rings. Only it’s not my cell phone, and it’s not electronic. It’s a real phone sound—something I haven’t heard since my high-school summer job at a tennis pro shop with my cheap boss who wouldn’t buy decent office equipment. The sound is coming from beneath the futon. The world slides into focus, and I realize that my roommates and I put the Harvard-installed, Hotline-surplus red phone under the futon so it wouldn?...
Although widely regarded as a friend to business, the President has struggled to find a Treasury boss who has won the respect of Wall Street and the Bush inner circle. JOHN SNOW is expected to remain in place, at least for a while, but it's almost certain that the search will go on. A possible replacement: WILLIAM DONALDSON, the former investment banker who, after a sluggish start as head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, is beginning to win praise for steering the agency into more aggressive scrutiny of slippery business practices. A Donaldson drawback: he has alienated some...
...that Bush has been re-elected, it won't be long before attention turns to the 2008 fight for the Republican nomination. Since Vice President Dick Cheney has said he's not interested in following the tradition of V.P.s running to succeed the boss, there's no clear heir to the G.O.P. nomination. Potential contenders hail from different ideological camps and traditions. They include...
...tune of $31 million, a state spending record, incumbent Democrat Joe Kernan joked that challenger Mitch Daniels, head of the Office of Management and Budget under George W. Bush, resembled The Simpsons' distasteful plutocrat. Hoosier voters, however, responded to Daniels' fiscal savvy--and to the coattails of his former boss--making him the state's first Republican Governor since...
...President sat with Rove, Karen Hughes and Bartlett, his advisers almost giddy as they worked on new language for the President's remarks. Bartlett answered an email on his BlackBerry that asked if Kerry had given the campaign a gift. The communications director messaged back, "Yes, and my boss is about to open it." They crafted a speech that would lampoon Kerry's "new nuance" as the President ticked off the Senator's various positions for and against the war, concluding with the mocking compliment "I want to thank Senator Kerry for clearing that...