Word: czar
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Then there is the question of money. In Bradley's corner are heavyweights like Howard Schultz, the chairman of Starbucks, and Len Riggio, the chairman of Barnes and Noble. Jane Eisner is rumored to be coming aboard, most likely as a proxy for her husband Michael, the Disney czar--a close Bradley friend who must stay neutral because Disney owns a federally regulated broadcast network, ABC. But support for Bradley is still unformed enough that host names won't be printed on the invitations to his March fund raiser in New York City. And with Gore clinching most traditional donors...
...silver, scholarships for their kids, fancy guns, cowboy hats, skis and other booty that reportedly included call girls. While acknowledging bribery, Leavitt also implied extortion, by way of a "sinister and dark corner of corruption." Robert Garff, a local car dealer and now, gamely, third at bat as S.L.O.C. czar, said, "I can't say our hands are clean, but the system has been flawed for years. So in some sense we're victims." Of whom? Fingers pointed at an I.O.C. that allegedly demands favors for favoritism...
...good life ended in 1935. Thomas E. Dewey was appointed New York City special prosecutor to crack down on the rackets. He targeted Luciano, calling him "the czar of organized crime in this city," and charged him with multiple counts of compulsory prostitution. The trial was sensational. Tabloids went wild. Lucky vehemently denied being a pimp. "It's a bum rap," he said, a lament echoed down the years to modern Miami, where a few aging mobsters remember the man. "Nobody had anything bad to say about Charlie," one of them told...
...meteoric rise--from tending livestock during a period of disgrace in the 1970s to being the country's top economic czar in the '90s--mirrors China's stunning growth over the past two decades, his future looks as turbulent as the economy overall. Insiders say his position is secure for the time being, not least because nobody in his right mind would aspire to take over the economic portfolio now. But if the economy keeps worsening, Zhu's joke about building his own coffin could come back to haunt...
Among Galbraith's many accomplishments was his service as price czar under President Roosevelt during the great depression. In this capacity, Galbraith was a principal architect of the New Deal, an economic relief effort that called for increased government spending to stimulate the economy and narrow the gap between rich and poor...