Word: bossinger
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It had all the trappings of an American political campaign trip: advance men running around with clipboards; overly efficient volunteers bossing one another and everyone else around; dour Secret Service agents in double-knit suits mumbling to one another through microphones hidden up their sleeves. At the center of the...
During this period, Hughes was the largest private employer in Nevada and provided the cover for the CIA'S Glomar Explorer operation. The executives of Summa Corp.-which was solely owned by Hughes and still oversees his vast real estate, gambling and hotel interests and airline-pretended that the...
No Bossing. Carter apparently meant what he said about having a strong No. 2 man. He also needs Mondale as a link to the liberals in the Democratic Party who fret about the President's aversion to new spending programs. Mondale, moreover, enjoys the unqualified support of Hamilton Jordan...
New Aid. The President enlisted his Cabinet as working partners in the crisis. Straw-bossing the operation was Energy Chief James Schlesinger, who helped draft the natural gas bill and cut red tape to get gas supplies moving. When Carter left his Cabinet meeting, he put Schlesinger in charge of...
Whether bossing a deck detail or spending hours in a saloon ashore, Frank, 47, a chief petty officer with 29 years of service in the U.S. Navy, thought that he could take care of himself. The Navy disagreed. Aware that the chiefs drinking was ruining both his health and his...