Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...multibillion-dollar company built by pretty good athletes to serve great athletes, a place where work is play and play is damned serious. "We are in the sports business, not the shoe business," says Mark Parker, a vice president and former shoe designer who has been Nike's chief strategist. "It is not just a better definition of what our epicenter is but what we are all about." That's why, for instance, Nike bought Canstar Sports, which makes Bauer hockey equipment and inline skates; why the swoosh has been extended, with middling results, to other equipment such as bats...
...tyrant himself. The generals on Wall Street are so certain of the outcome that in their minds they've already won the war and held the ticker-tape parade. And that's just the point. "There is a lot of room for disappointment," notes Tom McManus, a market strategist in Katonah, N.Y. "People have forgotten how easily things can go wrong." What if we don't quickly knock out Saddam's weapons of mass destruction? Other than a few diehard militarists, no one possesses the will to keep at it indefinitely...
...once had the opportunity to ask Clinton adviser and political strategist James Carville whether it would be possible for a pro-life Democrat to be elected to the Presidency. He felt that it would never happen; I hope that someday someone proves him wrong. Alternatively, I hope that the Republican party turns towards the poor rather than to those who vociferously trumpet the need for change in the party...
Carville's red sweater and khakis stood out from the dark suits of co-panelists Charles Black, a Republican political strategist, journalist Jules Witcover and moderator Jill Hanson who was the national political director for the Dole-Kemp 1996 campaign...
...market plunged to their lowest levels in two years. Across the Pacific, the ill winds from Asia blew the Dow Jones industrial average into a 157-point drop on Wednesday. "The real problem in East Asia is not Thailand, Indonesia or the Philippines," says Kenneth Courtis, chief Asia-Pacific strategist for Deutsche Morgan Grenfell. "It is Japan and Korea...