Word: czar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...swashbuckling Buss, 46, he dealt so high because he has been "a sports nut since I could remember," and, he adds, "if I handle it right and produce some winners, I can do rather well economically." Adds the new sports czar of the West Coast: "There's a lot of crap-shooter...
Staffers at the Council of Wage and Price Stability insist that they can still enforce the guidelines by making companies targets of public censure, but some of the targets could not care less. Even as Judge Parker was gutting the program, White House Inflation Czar Alfred Kahn was publicly attacking Amerada Hess, an oil company, for breaching the price standards. A Hess spokesman retorted, almost sneeringly: "We regret that the guidelines, as established by the council, do not allow us to comply." Groaned one Administration official: "They're thumbing their noses...
...into hospital affairs. The G.O.P. also sees the bill as a wedge to open the way for price controls in other industries. Contends Republican Congressman David Stockman of Michigan: "It is a classic Rube Goldberg legislative contraption that will be impossible to implement and virtually make Califano the hospital czar...
...That's why I want to be Czar...
...Alfred Kahn. The loose tongue of the chairman of the Council on Wage and Price Stability is increasingly bothersome to the White House. Within two working days. Press Secretary Jody Powell twice had to "clarify" Kahn's statements. First the inflation czar told a congressional committee that he did not favor Carter's plan to decontrol oil prices. Soon afterward presidential aides apparently changed Kahn's mind. Said Kahn: "I am now 100% behind the decision to decontrol. I always have been 49½% behind it." Then he told an AFL-CIO rally that failure of voluntary...