Word: czars
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SOME time ago, it became part of the conventional wisdom to suggest that the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson would make an ideal Drug Czar. It is a position which has never existed in the past, and the responsibilities of the Czar are necessarily vague...
...idea. The drug problem--some would say hysteria--has risen to the top of the public's list of concerns, and polling shows that Americans view drugs as the number one problem facing the country. With this concern in mind, the Republicans have been thinking about naming a Drug Czar of their...
...present, the two candidates for the post of Drug Czar represent two very distinct attitudes towards the problem of drugs. The one seeing in it the results of economic violence. The other finding evidence of permissiveness gone awry and the need for a return to law and order. And in the divergence between Ueberroth and Jackson lies the chasm, be it of class, color or principle, which separates most of America today...
...altogether corny menu recitation, the sparkling little supper club offers winy hot borscht, herbed rack of lamb, roasted guinea hen in a lemony olive sauce and a gently sweet banana-almond souffle. Asked why there was not more Russian food on the menu, the waiter answered, "The Czar Nikolai ate only French food." Smart...
Carlucci is now working on some five-year spending projections, based on the idea of a 2% annual increase in the Pentagon budget on top of inflation. Robert Costello, the Pentagon's "purchasing czar," estimates that such stability could enable the Defense Department to save as much as $30 billion annually through efficient management of buying programs, rather than the ) fits-and-starts practices forced by wildly fluctuating appropriations. Nonetheless, Carlucci recognizes that squeezing under even a 2% ceiling will require a "very intense major reorganization of the defense program...