Word: czars
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...There's hardly an exhibit in the Beck Museum-housed in a hangar and shed beside his home at Mareeba, 60 km west of Cairns-that the retired farmer doesn't have a story about: from the recoilless cannon built for a Russian czar to the empty 250-kg chemical bomb from Australia's World War II stockpile, to the Vietnam-era Centurion tank...
What about the ultimate Coca-Cola secret: Does its recipe really contain cocaine? That burning question can't be answered definitively, and the recipe for Classic Coke wasn't stolen. Coke officials deny the drug was ever an ingredient. But experts, including a former U.S. drug czar, have long said the coca plant--cocaine's source--once flavored Coke, which might explain why it was sold early on as a "brain tonic." Maybe the thieves should have had a drink...
GENERAL BARRY McCAFFREY, U.S.A. (RET.) Former U.S. drug czar In the 10 years since I've been out of uniform, I've been increasingly aware that without an aggressive free media publicizing shortcomings in government, this nation would work ineffectively at its public business. [The press] talking about a generalized vulnerability we have--that trains aren't protected--and railing against it sufficiently is more likely to protect us than put us in peril. If you publish diagrams of network computer switching, that wouldn't be the case...
...move was overdue. Negroponte struggled in his first year as spy czar as many of the well-entrenched agencies refused to bend to his will. The DNI's office felt the CIA was slow to lend a hand when the DNI was setting up his office. The FBI complained, as it often does, about being underbudgeted. And Negroponte had yet to prove to skeptics in Congress that he could wrest control of the Pentagon's massive intelligence assets from Rumsfeld and put them in service not just for military commanders but also for the entire intelligence community...
...scene is in backwaters like Kaluga, the signs of new prosperity in Russia's cities are even more striking. Yekaterinburg, a city of 1.3 million in the Urals region, 900 miles east of Moscow, is best known as the place where the Bolshevik revolutionaries shot the last Czar and his family in 1918. In the early 1990s, local factories ran out of money, and rival Mafia gangs battled for control of parts of town. The killings haven't entirely stopped (a member of the city council was found hanged in his jail cell last year after being arrested for alleged...