Sentences with phrase «czar alain»

But, Carol Browner, who will turn 53 tomorrow and headed the EPA during the Clinton administration, will now serve as the nation's first «energy czar,» or, formally, assistant to the president for energy and climate change.

His selection as Sputnik czar was settled in a brief meeting.

Korolyov needed a «Sputnik czar,» one man to tie together all the various team efforts, to integrate all the fabrication and test schedules, and to decide — without bothering Korolyov — what to do about the inevitable glitches.

Spamhaus's reported czar of the spam world, Alex Polyakov, heads a web of mortgage, pharmacy, and child - porn spam gangs.

The church was built on the spot where Czar Alexander II was assassinated by revolutionaries in 1881, setting in motion a sequence of events that led, eventually, to me.

The czar's death ushered in a frenzy of anti-Jewish pogroms.

His selection asSputnik czar was settled in a brief meeting.

Until an Ebola czar was appointed later in the outbreak, there was no effective central coordination.

We shouldn't have a czar per disease,» Greer said, predicting that a Zika czar might be the next appointment.

Singer said that Ebola czar Ron Klain has the right idea for fixing the system by creating a public health emergency management agency, which «would have the funding and expertise to respond to the increasing number of infectious disease crises.»

«It's a good thing to worry about server energy efficiency,» remarks Google's green energy czar Bill Weihl.

In the end, the NIH's AIDS czar, Anthony Fauci, asked his friend Ian Lipkin, a neurologist and virus hunter at the Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, to settle the impasse.

He's also likely to spur the FDA to follow the course laid out by agency cancer czar Richard Pazdur in speeding new approvals, possibly setting up a special unit aimed at orphan drugs to hasten OKs with smaller, better designed clinical trials.

He was NASA's first «Mars czar,» a title he earned in restructuring the space agency's Mars agenda in 2000 in the wake of back - to - back Red Planet mission failures.

Although the FDA has not formally proposed any such change, the agency's cancer czar, Richard Pazdur, floated the idea at a public conference on cancer care earlier this month in Washington, D.C., suggesting the idea may be gaining official traction.

A water czar might make a big mistake, and I think it would be exceedingly difficult to get the states to agree to that level of federal involvement.

Bill Weihl, Google's «clean energy czar,» said his company undertook the study out of a combination of self - interest, commitment to cleaner energy, and frustration with a national energy policy debate that seems to ask a lot of wrong questions.

So there's lots of effort to, I mean, we have a cyber security czar, we have a, but all of that is oriented towards, «Well, let's enforce the rules on top of this very shaky foundation we have built.»

Kaloyeros, according to the complaint, allegedly orchestrated the hiring and firing of multiple firms that were participating in the project and awarded the most lucrative contract to a contractor who agreed to provide a $ 50 million loan to a non-profit organization connected to SUNY Poly and effectively controlled by the Nanotechnology czar.

But, it's been five or six gubernatorial administrations in New York, and you just can't get a New York governor or lieutenant governor or trade czar to go there.

A spokesman for Gov. Andrew Cuomo's economic development czar, Howard Zemsky, did not respond to the newspaper's request for comment.

New York state energy czar Richard Kauffman says providing any more public testimony on the program is not possible right now since there are lawsuits filed against the initiative.

Ulrich emphasized his support for the controversial stop - and - frisk tactic and blasted de Blasio's handling of the city's mushrooming homeless population, and even called for the firing of his homelessness czar Steve Banks.

The antigraft czar urged participants to be dispassionate in their deliberations and key into the vision of President Muhammadu Buhari which is to «kill corruption before it kills Nigeria».

Alas, that rationale apparently guided Buhari's key appointments, from the corruption czar to the chief of defence staff.

But Steve Rattner — Quadrangle's most famous (now former) partner, Democratic fund - raising powerhouse, ex-manager of Michael Bloomberg's fortune, and erstwhile Obama Administration car czar — is still firmly on the investigation's hook.

Instead, Cuomo recently has suggested a new law that would let him appoint an anti-sleaze czar.

«The «disaster czar» would be a person who has tremendous experience in disaster relief, not an insider who's hand - picked by a government leader,» Haber told WCBS 880 Long Island Bureau Chief Mike Xirinachs, adding that it would be someone who knows how to behave before, during, and after a storm.

If he tries to become the new education czar, watch out.

Bill Eimicke: Columbia University professor and former housing «czar» under Gov. Mario Cuomo.

Democrat Adam Haber proposes naming a «disaster czar» to handle a county - wide emergency management and information system that he says would give Nassau County the response it did not get after Sandy.

That wasn't the case Wednesday, as Gov. Andrew Cuomo's economic development czar Howard Zemsky alternately jousted with, rebutted and generally went head - to - head with lawmakers who posed pointed questions about job creation programs overseen by Empire State Development Corp..

On Wednesday, the state's subsidy czar pounded the table in response to questions from... Assemblyman Fred Thiele, an independent from Long Island who is hardly known as a firebrand.

With less than two months remaining in his tenure as attorney general, Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo has filed two lawsuits against President Obama's former car czar, Steve Rattner, alleging he paid kickbacks in order to obtain $ 150 million in investments in his private equity firm, Quadrangle Group, from the state pension fund.

The letters and ensuing statements between Samuel Roberts, commissioner of the state's Office of Temporary Disability Assistance, and Steven Banks, the city's homelessness czar, show just how strained the relationship between the administrations of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio have come — and are remarkable in both their tone and their content.

Republican Jack Martins vowed Sunday to appoint a «gang czar» to crack down on vicious MS 13 gangsters if he's elected Nassau County executive.

From the February issue: Carl Weisbrod, the city's planning czar, finally put rumors to rest last month when he stepped down just one day...

Climate czar Carol Browner is spotted on Capitol Hill almost daily on a senator - by - senator effort to push climate change legislation through the Senate.

In addition, there are three downstate Assembly vacancies that will be filled in the upcoming Sept. 13 special elections for the seats that were held by Darryl Towns (now Cuomo's housing czar), Audrey Pheffer (now Queens County clerk), and Nettie Mayersohn (she retired during the last session).

Republican Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin, who represents the area, asked state health czar Howard Zucker.

Kauffman, dubbed the state's first energy czar, oversees and manages New York State's «entire energy portfolio,» including the Long Island Power Authority, the state Department of Public Service and the New York Power Authority.

ALBANY — State legislators have a say in which projects are supported by a $ 400 million discretionary fund, the state's business subsidy czar confirmed, but other details about how the Cuomo administration is approving funding requests remain unclear.

The governor said he spoke to President Barack Obama on Thursday night, as well as Ebola czar Ron Klain about the situation.

Kaiman, who also gets paid $ 150,000 a year as Cuomo's amorphous Long Island Sandy recovery czar, negotiated in 2014 what he called a cost - neutral wage settlement with Nassau's public - employee unions.

California - based Soraa is expected to move into the new facility by the end of the year, said Howard Zemsky, New York's economic development czar, during a visit to Syracuse on Tuesday.

Howard Zemsky, the governor's economic development czar, told state legislators earlier this year that «every region has come a long way from what it was» and lauded what he termed «incredible progress.»

A Connecticut senator who has visited the Commonwealth is calling on Trump to appoint a czar to oversee recovery efforts.

A routine oversight hearing by the state Assembly turned testy when Governor Cuomo's Economic Development Czar, Howard Zemsky, endured over two hours of questions about Governor Cuomo's economic development programs, which are currently under federal investigation.

Gov. Eliot Spitzer, for one, tried to weigh in on schools by creating the post of senior education policy adviser — dubbed «education czar» by some — and filling it with Manuel Rivera, the Rochester schools superintendent who had been National Superintendent of the Year in 2006.

It's a triple dose of innovation - first, a redesigned, more user - friendly city website... second, the city rolls out its second major app... and third, a new information czar.