Word: analyst
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George Bush shocked Ronald Reagan with a 2-point win in 1980. That prompted Bush to proclaim he had "the Big Mo," and prompted an NBC analyst to suggest that "Ronald Reagan is politically dead." Eight years later, it was future President Bush's turn to be not just defeated but also crushed with a third-place finish. That was the year Pat Robertson dominated headlines with a second-place finish. It was also the year Dick Gephardt won the Democratic contest, while Michael Dukakis finished third. It's possible, of course, that front runners Bush and Gore could both...
While Case plays the statesman and AOL president Robert Pittman deploys the substantial charm of a born salesman, the next few levels of management harbor a cadre of "killers and cutthroats," says a former analyst intimately familiar with the company. AOL's laid-back latte drinkers took early retirement ("I just didn't want to sit in on any more screaming matches," says one), while the real sharks, believing themselves invulnerable because of their vast wealth, continued to swim the halls in Dulles. The piped-in music may be the Eagles, and the furnishings may look as if the Ikea...
Just don't expect David Chase to produce it. He wants to make films, and he suspects this will be his last series. Yeah, sure. Isn't the old soldier who can't escape the Business the oldest story around? Maybe not, if Chase learned something from all those analyst sessions. "Michael Corleone had always been a reluctant gangster. 'I try to get out, and they pull me back in.' Well, why do you let them?" Chase says with a chuckle. "Why don't you go to a psychiatrist? Why don't you get some therapy...
Local political analyst Glenn S. Koocher '71, host of the political television show "Cambridge Inside Out," said he had heard speculation that Decker might change her vote from Born to another candidate after a certain number of ballots...