Word: czars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Succeeded William Bennett as the Administration's drug czar...
...have been the first choice -- or even the second -- but last week Agriculture Secretary Clayton Yeutter was George Bush's final choice to become Republican national chairman and replace the ailing Lee Atwater. Ever since former drug czar William Bennett turned down the post last month, claiming it might conflict with his lucrative speechmaking and book-writing plans, the Administration has been floundering in search of an acceptable party chieftain...
...even the most vocal critics of the new plan have been assuaged by the person who will put it into practice. This new "programming czar" has more power than any predecessor but also a daunting task: maneuvering through the byzantine PBS bureaucracy. "What we wanted was a Solomon," says PBS president Bruce Christensen. "Someone with extraordinary political skills as well as program judgment. And someone who was willing to take the heat...
Jennifer Lawson, public TV's first programming czar, wants to appeal to more than just the "Chardonnay and Brie crowd." But first she will have to tame the unruly PBS bureaucracy...
...view that victory is in sight is shared by the President and his outgoing drug czar. While drug use has plunged in the middle class, cocaine and crime still rage in poor neighborhoods. Bush shares Thanksgiving with the G.I.s...