Word: czars
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...public service czar will work closely with Corbin and the student heads of PBHA to acquire skills in eight areas—from financial planning to public relations—that Corbin said are key to running a non-profit...
...Inechkyans have been living in Nizhneimeretinskaya Bukhta for six generations since 1911, when Czar Nicholas II granted land there to resettlers from Turkey. "Now, Putin is taking away what the Emperor gave our forefathers," says Inechkyan. He notes that the authorities promised to shift the bobsled track in the mountains above Sochi because of ecological concerns, "but they have no problem trampling upon human beings...
...FARC even attacked Ecuadorian military bases. And whereas elsewhere in Ecuador there is little if any cultivation of coca, the raw material of cocaine, "we estimate that there are more than 10 clandestine [cocaine] laboratories operating in Ecuadorian territory along the border with Colombia," says Ecuador's drug czar, Domingo Paredes. That's hardly a surprise given that at least half of the FARC's more than $500 million annual revenues is made via cocaine trafficking...
...Quincy, an alumnus of Quincy House donated his entire comic book collection,” Timothy D. Foley ’98 says. But neither he nor the librarian of the time know who the donor was. Back then, Foley was a so-called “comic book czar,” a short-lived title given to the student who managed the comic book collection.But somewhere along the line, money for purchasing new comics stopped coming in. Since Foley’s graduation and Rubin’s departure, the line of the “comics czars?...
...aides - especially in the ultra-centralized Bush administration - have relatively unimportant jobs. John Walters and Elaine Chao have served in the Cabinet ever since Bush moved into the White House more than seven years ago, but not only is it unlikely that you can identify them as the drug czar and labor secretary, it's virtually impossible that you can identify anything they've ever done...