Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shift, which for more than a week had investors rotating into the stocks of chemicals, machinery and paper companies, which stand to benefit as the world economy recovers from the Asian flu. "What started two weeks ago started too fast and was too extreme," says Jeffrey Warantz, strategist at Salomon Smith Barney. "But it's not over." Warantz's research shows that it isn't just tech stocks or large consumer stocks like Merck and Wal-Mart that are rising now. Several weeks ago, 81% of the stocks that he tracks were lagging the gains in Standard & Poor...
...says. Enrico warned his top managers in a recent strategy session not to think things at PepsiCo are going to be predictable. And deep down, Pepsi's cola warriors may never lose their thirst for battle. "We are going to take back what is rightfully ours," says Nooyi, the strategist. Let the games begin again...
...billion purchase of the Marconi defense business from General Electric Co. of Britain. But European business also seems to be playing by a set of new and bloodthirsty rules. In a clean break with the clubby, amicable deal making of the past, a new breed of European corporate strategist is talking the North American lingo of hostile takeovers, poison pills and white knights, and behaving accordingly. Even some of the friendlier activity reflects the dominance of America's hardball tactics...
...area where his contrast with Clinton is favorable: credibility. Some blame for all this falls on Gore's jumbled and evolving campaign organization, which functions like a board of directors without a chairman, leaving his vice-presidential staff with the task of damage control. Still lacking is what one strategist calls the "mad genius"--the big-thinking Lee Atwater/James Carville/Dick Morris figure with a feel for the themes that will marry country and candidate. That role may be played in combination by pollster Mark Penn, media guru Bob Squier and Gore's savvy former chief of staff, Jack Quinn...
...hard conservatives worry about her staff's influence. Cunningham's Liddy-the-Closet-Liberal complaint was soon picked up by others, including Sheila Moloney, executive director of the conservative Eagle Forum. Moloney calls Dole's selection of advisers--with its emphasis on Eastern Republican operatives like political strategist Kieran Mahoney and committee manager Tom Daffron--"troubling...