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...Alan Greenspan had just been named head of the Federal Reserve, and green he was. Over at Treasury, the politically savvy but market-naive James Baker spooked traders every time he moved his lips. Today we have the same Fed chairman, but he could not be a more adept helmsman. At Treasury, Robert Rubin, America's foremost fixed-income trader in his days at Goldman Sachs, can coldcock a decline in the dollar with a few choice words...
...long, the de facto helmsman races in and out, trying out bits of his Wednesday speech. He is aware of the naysaying, that Apple, with its single-digit market share, is doomed to fall before the Goliath of Microsoft. At Macworld, he will stress instead Apple's domination of education and desktop publishing. He fiddles with a paper clip as he thinks out loud...
...continued to ordain idiotic agricultural experiments, but Liu and Deng sidetracked the policies. The strategy--a sort of bureaucratic guerrilla warfare--exasperated the Great Helmsman. Presented with new Deng directives on communes, Mao sputtered, "What emperor decided these?" Finally, even Mao recognized that China was famished and dying. He made a strategic retreat and allowed Liu and Deng to restore order and the food supply. But he never forgave them for showing him up. Increasingly paranoid, he accused Deng of refusing to sit next to him at meetings. In 1962 he attacked Liu and Deng, screaming, "You have...
Because of the demands of design, organization and marketing, Conner leaves most of the steering of his boat these days to equally aggressive helmsman Paul Cayard. But Conner retains the title of skipper, and indeed, his strategic genius and Houdini-like survival skills are integral to the team's success. As his opponents can attest, he will do anything to prevent a recurrence of his worst nightmare: losing the Cup to Australia in 1983, which was the first time the Auld Mug had ever passed out of American hands. Should that happen this time, few doubt that Dirty Dennis will...
...Polynesian wayfinding, an aerospace engineer, and three mothers of small children. As impressive and eclectic as the women are, however, only two are experienced in big-boat match racing. By contrast, virtually all the members of the men's teams have that critical background. "We're the underdogs," says helmsman Dawn Riley, "so we have to work 110% harder...