Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sister problem of hiring good employees is keeping them. Fattening employees' paychecks is not always enough to get them to stay. Says Arnold Sanow, a small-business strategist and author of Entrepreneur Boot Camp: "Money is important, but you can get a job anywhere today. Why stay where you're not appreciated...
...Dennis Hastert and other G.O.P. bosses were enraged by Bush's words, aides to minority leader Dick Gephardt told Hastert's people, "Get used to it. We've been putting up with this for seven years." Bush called Hastert on Thursday to make nice, sources told TIME; earlier, Bush strategist Karl Rove called Representative Tom Davis, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, to offer Bush's fund-raising help...
...marketing meeting aside--he has clearly relinquished day-to-day leadership of the animation house to director John Lasseter on the creative side and co-founder Ed Catmull on the tech side. But when the company does need Jobs--mostly as a public face and all-purpose corporate strategist--he delivers. The money. The marketing. The deals. He is revered for going toe-to-toe with Disney capo Michael Eisner, renegotiating the fledgling studio's five-picture deal with the Mouse Kingdom at a time when Toy Story had made Pixar the first serious threat to Disney's 60-year...
...Republican and Democratic strategists, an independent Buchanan campaign remains something of an X factor. As a social conservative, Buchanan could siphon off twice as many votes from a Republican candidate than from a Democrat, according to a poll conducted by GOP consultant Frank Luntz. Republicans are painfully aware of this threat, says TIME Washington deputy bureau chief Matthew Cooper. ?As Jay [Carney, TIME's Washington correspondent] discovered, the Bush people have launched a charm offensive to keep Buchanan from bolting,? says Cooper. But loyal Dems shouldn?t mail their Buchanan campaign contributions just yet, Democratic strategist James Carville told TIME...
What should you own? If rates keep rising, the rotation into cyclical stocks like Alcoa and Caterpillar that began in April but stalled over the summer could regain momentum. "That play has been shaken but not yet disproved," notes John Manley, market strategist at Salomon Smith Barney. In the fixed-income world, short-term securities are best because they are easily held to maturity and rolled into higher-paying investments...