Word: czars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...efforts at improving his lot; envy that a neighbor may be better off, coupled with a belief that he must have cheated; suspicion of anything new, since most changes were for the worst; rampant superstition; and, finally, an unquestioning acceptance of a higher, distant authority, like the "Good Czar" in Russia or his Chinese counterpart, the "Good Emperor...
...said you want to be the education president. What have you done? The biggest menace to America's public school system is drugs. You appointed a "drug czar," William Bennett, but haven't given him the funding he needs to develop a successful program...
...ethics President, it has been a rough 100 days. Your first nominee for Secretary of Defense, John G. Tower, crashed and burned on the character issue. Ethics czar C. Boyden Gray '64 was lambasted for the appearance of impropriety...
...payroll of 9,000 employees by about one-third. In a candid statement, Drexel said "adverse publicity" about its legal problems had helped drive it from the retail market. Earlier this month the company settled a Securities and Exchange Commission suit by agreeing to fire its indicted junk-bond czar, Michael Milken, and submit to intense Government supervision...
...District and more beds will be available in a federal prison in Maryland. Drug treatment will gain only 300 beds instead of the 1,040 the city asked for. Will Bennett's battle plan do much to help the nation's capital kick the habit? Given the czar's imperiousness and the swirl of rumors surrounding Barry, whose friendship with an accused drug dealer is under investigation, that is far from certain...