Word: czars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decline of Reagan's longtime aide stems from several ill-considered decisions, an inefficient management style and a travel schedule that has kept him away from the White House at key moments. Although he is generally known as Reagan's policy czar, one informed presidential aide told TIME Correspondent Douglas Brew: "I cannot think of a major policy program that he has shaped...
Though Prince Aleksey Andreyevich Orlov is only 30, he is the emissary whom his uncle, Czar Nicholas II, trusts with a secret task: extracting a stiff price for Russian commitment. Orlov has other credentials: another uncle is the Earl of Walden, a father figure to young Orlov since the boy's Oxford days. Together, the relatives negotiate the fate of their respective nations. It is not an easy matter. In Russia, revolutionaries are appalled at the prospect of war. Feliks Kschessinsky, a terrorist leader, fulminates, "Half the misery in the world is caused by nice young men like Orlov...
Back at work, the Dowling committee forms a subcommittee to remind students that it exists. "This is the most important issue at Harvard, and possibly in the world," Andrew Hermann '82, who has been granted permanent spokesman status by committee czar John Dowling, says...
With all this novelty, a Crimson rooter looking for a familiar face on which to cast his eyes will probably seek out coach Joe Restic, starting his eleventh season as Czar of the Multiflex. Restic has obviously been a successful Liontamer, with the only blot on his 9-1 career mark the 21-19 defeat in Cambridge two years...
Boston's cable czar wants more than detail; he seeks a system that will evolve with technological changes without requiring the city to undertake vast excavation or construction projects. Not that he's thinking small. Proposals under consideration include plans for at least 100 channels available for video transmission--64 more than any existing municipal system...