Word: czars
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...numbers are great," Bush told the Congressman. "I'm going to connect with those people. I do care about them and their situation." To top it all off, Bush had a surprise in store. That afternoon he would finally nominate someone to fill the new job of manufacturing czar, which he had announced in another Ohio speech six months before...
...chief political strategist Karl Rove and whether the President's top political mind is distracted, trying to do too many jobs in running both a campaign and the White House political operation. "Even in his superhuman mode, he can't be taking on John Kerry and vetting the manufacturing czar," says a former senior Administration official...
...Mario Monti's resolve to punish Microsoft wavered last week, he showed no sign of it. For more than four arduous years, Europe's antitrust czar and his staff have toiled to build a watertight case against the computer software giant, filing three formal complaints alleging that the company abused its monopolistic position and harmed competitors and consumers. But last Tuesday, just a day after E.U. member states approved tough sanctions against the Redmond powerhouse, Microsoft's chief executive Steve Ballmer flew to Brussels with an eleventh-hour settlement offer that directly addressed many of the European complaints. Some...
...Taekwondo grew, so did Kim's stature: he became the sports czar of South Korea and, last July, a vice president of the International Olympic Committee (I.O.C.). "He had the power to do anything," says a Korean sports journalist...
After all, the Clarkson Golden Knights and St. Lawrence Saints, who play on campuses standing only a 20-minute drive apart, shepherd their respective communities through subzero winters and drive the local economy. And for a decade and a half, Mark Morris was the czar of Clarkson’s hockey empire...