The first and most obvious effect is on the onetime bosses themselves, achievers deprived of the arena in which they achieved.

Leaders used the fears to build their own power - feudal dukes once, now onetime Communist bosses like President Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia, building new power on old separations.

Perhaps he is wrong in suspecting that his onetime boss was a K.G.B. mole.

As a personal favor for his onetime boss and mentor, Bennett had walked away from staggering wealth, and his dreams.

Ford also works for Powers & Company, the lobbying firm of former state GOP Chairman William Powers, Sweeney's longtime political ally and onetime boss.

Francesco Todaro (died November 8, 1944) was an Italian-American mobster and onetime boss of the New Orleans crime family.

Or as John McLendon said, in quoting a favorite Biblical passage to synopsize his onetime boss: "Yesterday, Today and Forever."

Malangone was a close friend of Bonanno crime family consigliere and onetime acting boss, Anthony Spero.

Her onetime boss sits in his cloud of smoke, oblivious not only to Constantine's attentions but to the glorious view from the outcurving windows.

By an unofficial tally of 14,030 to 8,684 votes, the newcomer, P. David Soares, vanquished his onetime boss, Paul A. Clyne, in the Democratic primary on Tuesday.