Word: czars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hand and sprayed them with herbicide. By last November they had wiped out around one-fifth of the approximately 45,000 acres under cultivation in the upper Huallaga Valley. But after the bloody murder of 19 crop-eradication workers, believed to have been ordered by a local drug czar, the program was suspended for a couple of months...
...nearly finished with my dissertation when I was summoned to see Semyon Tsarapkin, head of the Foreign Ministry department in charge of United Nations and disarmament affairs. I found him posing like a czar behind his desk, strutting amid the disorder of an office piled with heaps of papers and books, ornamented by a battery of telephones, and infused with an oppressive sense of his abrasive personality...
...Czar Alexander III asked a St. Petersburg jeweler, Carl Faberge, to make an Easter present for his Empress. The gold and enamel egg so pleased the monarch that he commissioned at least one every Easter. His successor, Nicholas II, continued the tradition, and for the next 31 years, until the Bolsheviks put an end to such inspired extravagance, there was always a Faberge egg in the imperial Easter basket. A gorgeous rooster pops out of the Chanticleer egg to announce every hour; the Peacock egg hides an enameled gold bird that struts on cue and fans its multihued tail; inside...
...their separate political reasons, the principal moderates and hard-liners agree that no arms-control czar should be appointed. But McFarlane talked last week of finding someone "to advise, to troubleshoot and to be a designated hitter that could assure momentum is sustained." The White House favorite for the job is Paul Nitze, the chief negotiator at the INF talks. Yet he is opposed by the Pentagon hawks. In Moscow, one Soviet expert on U.S. relations smiled at the Washington jargon-czar-but said with a sigh, "When Kissinger was making these decisions in the Nixon years, then we were...
...idea for settling the dispute, advanced by McFarlane, was to turn arms-control negotiations over to a newly appointed "czar" to coordinate policy. Not surprisingly, that notion, especially if the czar reported directly to the President, appealed neither to Shultz nor to Weinberger. Their combined opposition has made the issue a sore point...