Word: czar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration's voluntary wage-price guidelines are getting off to a shakier start than friend or foe had anticipated. Kahn, the anti-inflation czar, does not have enough staffers or even telephones to accommodate the torrent of questions from business and labor leaders seeking clarification of the complex program, with its ambivalent language and infamous algebraic equations for figuring out how much prices may be raised...
...writes good wage pacts. He enjoys the respect and admiration of minority groups. He is gutsy, no doubt about that. A businessman, a czar, has to be in charge of the economy. Nothing is going to be accomplished until the people overseas see that somebody is in charge. Also, there are elements of leadership in the Ways and Means Committee, and they will listen to someone who speaks their language. Ford is the kind...
...tell Schlesinger, "All right, you've got your 55-mile-an-hour speed limit, you've got your natural gas bill-that's about all you've got, but no production anywhere, no new resources that are coming in." You show me an energy czar who is not going to plan for production, and he's no czar...
...speech was unprecedented for Iran's proud autocrat. It reminded some history-conscious observers of the last days of Imperial Russia's Czar Nicholas II in 1917, or France's King Louis XVI trying to stem the revolutionary fervor that was eventually to sweep him from his throne in 1792. In a televised address to his rebellious country, the Shah announced that he was placing strife-and strike-torn Iran under temporary military rule. Simultaneously, however, he pledged to meet virtually all the demands of his regime's opposition?all, that is, except for his own abdication from the Peacock...
...Saturday, Oct. 28, Blumenthal, Solomon, Miller, Anti-Inflation Czar Alfred Kahn and Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Charles Schultze agreed on the main elements of the dollar-rescue plan during a four-hour meeting in Blumenthal's conference room. Most of the ideas were first voiced by Solomon, but they were scarcely new; non-Government people had been urging them for months. The group decided to get Carter's approval that night...