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Obama and his many czars need to understand that there is no way to outlaw greed and shortsightedness.

In contrast to this approach to supply chain integration, some companies established supply chain czars who managed organizations cobbled together from various supply-side functions.

But "czar" has become the default term for a trouble-shooter whose mission is important.

By 1918, the last Romanov Czar, Nicholas II, and his family were prisoners of Russia's new government in a remote coalmining city in the Ural Mountains.

"A country without its czar is like a village without an idiot."

'We're schizophrenic!' chimes John Grant, singer with American country rock chiefs The Czars. His diagnosis is rather apt: Grant, who can be heard on his band's latest album opining 'I love to see you fade and die', is in fact a witty, intelligent, affable frontman, seemingly distant from the often scathing figure portrayed in his songs.

So people threw out the czars and brought in the Beards?

IT'S good news for heart doctors that Wales is to get a heart czar.

It's not so much that we need a children's czar, it's that we should have had one years before.

A burst of liberalism in the 1860s (when the Russian serfs were freed two years before the American slaves), ended after revolutionaries assassinated Czar Alexander II on a Petersburg street in 1881.

This well-guarded island is the burial place of Russia's Romanov czars.

Long-time Democratic health policy czars like Henry Waxman and Dan Rostenkowski were replaced by such Republican backbenchers as Ernest Istook and Scott Klug as "the people to watch."

Smirnoff Black is the newest Russian entry on the world market, but is made on its pre-revolution (1917) recipe that rendered it the preferred drink of the czars for a century.

The Russian czars had established such reserves on Lake Baikal even before the creation of Yellowstone.

A primary feature of the legislation is the creation of the post of Director of National Intelligence, whom both supporters and opponents have tellingly referred to as an "intelligence czar." Totalitarian regimes have need for intelligence czars; constitutional republics do not.