Mr. Hofmann recalled how a tough transit supervisor whose last name was Pope tried unsuccessfully to take away Father Cosgrove's driving implements.
"In my time, if you had a bad supervisor, you had a really tough time," he explains.
'Tough' supervisors are not bullies if they set up clear expectations and communicate them directly to reportees.
The heretofore invincible Paul J. Feiner, Greenburgh's town supervisor, barely emerged from a tough Democratic primary fight.
"It's a tough road," said Peter King, a planning and development supervisor for the State Department of Transportation, which expects to finish a major study of the highway by year's end.
Soon Corky is accepted into his substitute family, which includes a fatherly supervisor (Richard Roundtree), brotherly agents (Roger Fan and Dave Sheridan) and a tough but comely co-worker (Vinessa Shaw), with whom Corky becomes blissfully, helplessly enamored.
Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky described Rich as a tough administrator who was the right person for LACMA at the time.
In the Third Senate District on Suffolk's South Shore, the longtime Republican incumbent, Caesar Trunzo, faces a tough challenge from Brian X . Foley a Democrat who is the Brookhaven town supervisor.
And in today's corporate culture, supervisors may condone bullying as part of a tough management style.
The assistant nursing supervisor running Methodist's nurses that Dec. 16 was a tough, blunt-speaking Flatbush native named Eileen Bonner.
David Bitkower, who was Ahmad's supervisor during the first phase, told me that it was a tough case.
