He "nailed the interview, " his new boss later told him, and landed the job as a county government-affairs director in Oregon City, Ore.

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He said his boss at the restaurant told him to take two weeks off after the resulting front page article - which referred to Mr Butt as a "outlaw who had recruited hundreds of Britons to fight for Bin Laden" - as it was bad for business.

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The new man's first brush with Turkey's soldiers came after their coup of 1980, their third in the space of 20 years, when his boss in the transport authority, a retired colonel, told him to shave off his moustache.

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The men were hungry, but their boss in the white helmet was a bit skeptical when I told him a guy working at a hot dog cart some 10 blocks away claimed to have 50 hot dogs he could sell them.

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Peter Craig's then boss told him to return the vehicle as he had concerns that it could conflict with rules over procurement.

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His boss emerged from the house several minutes later and told him: "I think I killed somebody, " the driver testified.

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As I walked toward the elevator choking back tears, my boss told me to pick him up a Starbucks coffee while I was out.

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"We are not going to subject him to the abuse he gets here, " United boss Sir Alex Ferguson told Sky Sports.

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