Word: czars
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...more changes are coming: economics czar Carlos Lage has recently outlined plans to introduce a tax system, downsize the government work force, and restructure the agricultural sector. There is even talk of eliminating government control over who leaves the island...
This smorgasbord of candidates will confront Russian voters on Dec. 12 in the country's first parliamentary elections without a Czar or communist overlord. It is a landmark the historic import of which is exceeded only by the confusion that surrounds the array of parties elbowing one another for a place at the table. On the same day voters choose their new representatives, they will also pass judgment on a draft constitution that dramatically strengthens the power of the President and opens Boris Yeltsin to the charge that he is less interested in building democracy than in consolidating...
When lawmakers from sugar producing states held out until the last minute, NAFTA czar Daley asked Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy to gently remind top sugar lobbyists that their industry had been unscathed by the 1990 farm bill but might not receive such favorable treatment when farm programs come up for review in 1995. "The public is not looking for an innocent as President," said Clinton pollster Stan Greenberg. "They want someone who knows how to use power...
...economic prowess -- and its problems. Earlier this year, when credit was easy and the economy was steaming ahead at a 17% annual clip, the state-owned conglomerate and its 270,000 employees could hardly keep pace with consumer demand. Profits soared. Then came the credit crunch orchestrated by economic czar Zhu Rongji, and Shougang felt the sting at once. Customers slashed their orders, and soon Shougang could not pay its bills. The company last month was forced to take out a $70 million loan from the government to keep operating...
When George Bush was President and Jim Baker was his foreign policy czar, nobody logged more frequent-flyer miles for TIME than J.F.O. ("Jef") McAllister, our State Department correspondent. Accompanying the peripatetic Secretary of State on his shuttle-diplomacy marathons, McAllister quickly mastered the technological rigors of modern journalism -- banging out dispatches on his Toshiba laptop in airplanes, airports, briefing rooms and run-down hotels. He once typed a file while stuck in a broken elevator in Kislovodsk, a spa town in the heartland of Russia...