Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...political credentials of the partners are imposing. Charles Black, 38, was a top aide to Senator Robert Dole and the senior strategist for President Reagan's re-election campaign in 1984. Paul Manafort, 36, was the political director of the 1984 G.O.P. national convention. Roger Stone, 33, was the Eastern regional campaign director for Reagan in 1984 and is now one of Congressman Jack Kemp's chief political advisers. Peter Kelly, 48, was finance chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 1981 to 1985. Lee Atwater, 34, was Reagan's deputy campaign manager in 1984 and is now Vice President...
...scenes. In fact, unlike in his earlier films, he hardly ever uses his incredible physical strength or fighting ability in hand-to-hand combat. Instead, we see him use superior American weaponry and sheer bravado to defeat the enemy. (By the way, Norris is also presented as a master strategist and a speaker of French and Arabic, if you can swallow that...
...diplomat turned high-priced consultant is cut out for local politics or the rigors of the campaign trail. As Cuomo told the New York Times: "I know more about Buffalo than Beirut. Dr. Kissinger would be the other side of the coin." But could he beat the great global strategist? Yes, said the Governor, by "at least one vote...
...Reagan is passionately opposed to raising them, and because House Democrats, whom Reagan likes to blame for past increases, will not cooperate unless Reagan asks them to do so. Reagan will have to "take the hard knocks," as Speaker Tip O'Neill put it. Or as one Senate G.O.P. strategist suggested, "We all have to join hands and jump off the cliff together...
...more valid charge against Shultz is that he is no grand strategist. He acts like the foreman of a crew of diplomatic construction workers rather than a statesman pursuing an overall design. The Secretary is a devoted incrementalist. He cannot and does not claim any major breakthroughs, but says that during his tenure the U.S. has developed a consistency in its handling of relations with the Soviets, eased tensions with European allies and seen more democratic governments take root in Central America. Progress, he believes, can be made only by a kind of patient chipping away at encrusted differences rather...