Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about policy and message. Impeachment lurks but never sits down. "You talk about it before and you talk about it later, but the point of the meeting is to come up with an alternative message, something to put out there other than impeachment," says a participant. Says a Democratic strategist: "Defending himself against impeachment is just another part of the President's public relations operation. It's all clearly integrated...
...record. They must request witnesses en bloc, which means they must be careful about whom they call. The Senate will vote on the complete set, so just one objectionable witness could drag the whole bloc down. "That's a huge victory for the Democrats," said a Democratic strategist on the Hill, "and I'm not sure the White House gets it." And even if a majority votes yes on the set of witnesses, the vote only authorizes depositions; it will take another majority vote to hear them live...
...back toward normal levels: After all, world markets are overflowing with oil. "I don't even expect much more movement in the stocks you historically see getting the most attention in these situations, like energy companies or defense-related businesses," says Gail Dudack, Warburg Dillon Reed's chief investment strategist...
...approaching a selling frenzy. All of that could change very quickly, though, if U.S. troops become involved on the ground. For now, some traders are taking some precautionary steps to get out of international stocks. "We have been doing some swapping," says Hugh Johnson, First Albany's chief investment strategist. "We've sold some stocks with big international exposure, like Dupont, ConAgra and Phillips Petroleum, and have bought Staples and McGraw Hill. I'm trying to make our portfolio a little more insulated from world events...
...more ambitious scheme--such as sending the U.S. Army on a search-and-destroy-Saddam mission--is politically and militarily foolish. Gulf War Army veteran John Hillen, a military strategist with the Council on Foreign Relations, believes such a campaign would be feasible only if Saddam did something really stupid, such as another lunge into Kuwait or a spectacular act of terrorism against U.S. citizens...