Word: czar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outspoken views could have held a high Government post. Simon indeed prides himself on speaking out with all the exuberance of an Alger hero, and although it was always rumored that he was on the brink of being fired, he managed to survive. As Richard Nixon's energy czar, he hoped, in vain, to preside over the liquidation of his own empire. He writes, "There is nothing like becoming an economic planner oneself to learn what is desperately, stupidly wrong with such a system...
Powell should have quit while he was behind. He tried a tasteless crack about a William Safire column "saying that Bob Strauss has been inflation czar for three days and nothing was any cheaper. Bob said that wasn't true," reported Powell, who went on to quote Strauss as asking: "What about the Pulitzer Prize?" (Safire had just won one.) "I like that, Jody," one listener shot back, and Powell riposted bitterly: "Well, then, that's the first thing this Administration has done that you've liked." Powell also mock apologized for attacking what he called...
...reduce from 6% to 5% the pay raise scheduled for 1.4 million federal employees this fall; open more federally owned timberland to cutting by private companies in order to increase supplies and hold down the price of lumber; pledge resistance to restrictions on trade; appoint a Cabinet-level "inflation czar" to function as a sort of federal ombudsman who would call attention to excessive Government spending...
When last week's executive order was finally hammered out, Admiral Turner, perhaps only half in jest, threw up his arms, sighed and told Brzezinski: "They call me the intelligence czar, but you're the boss." The admiral had a point, but then he has nothing to complain about from the reshuffle. For the first time, one man has been told to take charge of the nine all too often freewheeling, intensely competitive and sometimes overlapping intelligence agencies...
...State and Defense departments and the individual military services. The directive will give Turner authority over all intelligence budgets (estimated total: $7 billion). But, as decreed by the President last summer, the order stops short of giving Turner the job he most coveted: U.S. intelligence czar...