Word: czars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dole said, then raised the heat considerably by singling out one company, Time Warner, the media giant that includes the largest American music operation, the Warner film studio and a stable of magazines, including Time. One day after Dole's speech, William Bennett, the former Education Secretary and drug czar, sent letters to Time Warner board members asking the company to stop distributing rap with objectionable lyrics...
When Spielberg formed DreamWorks with Geffen and former Disney movie czar Jeffrey Katzenberg, he realized both his value to MCA (he had kept Universal profitable with such hits as E.T., Back to the Future and Jurassic Park) and his personal debt to Sheinberg, whom he calls a mentor. So DreamWorks said some of its products could be distributed by MCA-in a deal that could be worth $1 billion over the next decade-if Matsushita would keep Sheinberg and chairman Lew Wasserman aboard. The Japanese never responded to the offer...
...Tuesday night, Mexico City motorists were driving past Salinas' house honking their car horns and hollering, ``Lock him up! Throw him in jail!'' On Wednesday, Salinas formally withdrew his now hopeless bid to preside over the new World Trade Organization, relinquishing a cherished ambition to become an international economic czar. And on Friday, in an act that summed up his political decline, Salinas fell back on a tactic normally reserved for those who have no other leverage: the former President began a fast, temporarily called it off and then resumed...
Lebed: In a normal civilized society, you would have to force the army into politics with a stick. They should not be concerned with who is in power today, be it Czar, General Secretary or President. Presidents come and go, but the motherland always remains. We are not in a normal state. The Commonwealth of Independent States is, in fact, an alliance of abnormal states. That is why all this madness is going...
...senior Administration source tells TIME that Hillary Rodham Clinton will bow to public discomfort with her czar-like role in policy issues and play advocate instead. President Clinton and the first lady have talked at length about her role and how she is perceived: "They've concluded she is an enormous asset to him personally," says the source, but the American people "want her to be an advocate for causes she believes in, and not operationally in charge of things. They feel that having her running a piece of the action is hard for the public to understand." Instead...