Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like an extra from Smokey and the Bandit. Even when his G.O.P. opponent attacked him for owning slum property and being reprimanded by the state supreme court for unduly delaying a client's case, the normally combative Wilder turned the other cheek. As Paul Goldman, Wilder's longtime backstage strategist, explains, "One of the things we learned in 1985 is that if you don't think about race, it doesn't matter." Wilder won with what, compared with last week's results, seems almost a landslide margin: nearly 52% of the vote...
...banking system Monday. Earlier, E. Gerald Corrigan, president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, urged officials in Japan and West Germany to support the U.S. dollar to help restore confidence in American markets. "The U.S. had excellent crisis management this time," said Heiko Thieme, the Manhattan-based chief strategist for West Germany's Deutsche Bank...
...star-crossed: Friday the 13th in the month of October, on the eve of the second anniversary of a devastating market crash. "I'm telling you, psychology is really funny. People get crazy in situations like that," said portfolio strategist Elaine Garzarelli. Last week Friday the 13th lived up to its frightful reputation. After drifting lower at a sleepy pace for most of the day, the Dow Jones industrial average abruptly lurched into a hair- raising sky dive in the final hour of trading. By the time the 4 p.m. closing bell halted the rout, the index had dropped...
...defeated whether Hitler invaded or not, and a number of historians agree. "Even if he didn't invade us, he could have put resources into the war at sea . . . and starved us out," says Howard. "There's very little chance that we would have been able to survive." The strategist B.H. Liddell Hart, in History of the Second World War, applied the term "slow suicide" to Churchill's policy of fighting on. "By refusing to consider any peace offer," he wrote, "the British government had committed the country to a course that . . . was bound, logically, to lead through growing exhaustion...
...thundering herd of market indexes, partly because it is made up of blue-chip issues favored by relatively conservative investors. Broader market indexes including Standard & Poor's 500 and the Wilshire 5,000 had already reached all-time record levels by early August. Says Justin Mamis, chief strategist for the investment firm Cowen & Co.: "All the Dow can do now is put the lipstick on." The allure of stocks is broadening rapidly as more and more investors join the stampede, which is demonstrated by the big increase in the market's volume. The average daily number of shares traded...