Apparently his feelings had been hurt when he wasn't considered for Defense and his idea of an economic czar had been coldly rejected.

As "economic czar" or "assistant President" he administered a planned economy that was far from socialistic.

Gunter Mittag, once the Communist regime's economic czar, was also expected to be brought to Moabit.

Mr. Rubin and Zhu Rongji, China's economic czar, agreed to talk about instability in financial markets.

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's hand-picked economic czar came under fresh attack today over his plan for radical action to clean up the country's banking crisis.

Hjalmar Schacht, Hitler's economic czar, was accused of conspiring to arm Germany for aggressive wars.

It is almost as if he were the economic czar of a unique bicounty entity with a broad and powerful economic base, which, in fact, Grumman is.

Promoted to Beijing, he became economic czar in 1993 when the job looked impossible.

Do we need a single economic czar?

He was considered the country's economic czar throughout the 1990s.