Word: technocrat
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Rottenberg says campus political strategies,like national ones, adjusts to the candidates inany particular election year. Dukakis struggledwith an image as a cold-blooded technocrat, so hisyouthful supporters sought to "pep people up" and"generate excitement...
...Brown hasn't always been a populist. Ever obedient to his creed of flexibility, he has at times defined himself as heir to his father's political throne, as dreamer, environmentalist, rock 'n' roller, pragmatist and technocrat...
After seven years in the jungle, Brown caught the political bug one again. In 1989 he reappeared, bearded, in California, offering his skills as a technocrat to the state Democratic Party...
...fellow to blame for this predicament is incumbent Buddy Roemer, a reform-minded technocrat who fancied himself a crusader for good government but ultimately fell on his own sword. Though a man of ample charm, Roemer managed to alienate voters with a haughty Harvard-bred hubris and a stubborn sense that only he knew what was best for the state. His sweeping reform policies, like restructuring the tax system and overhauling education, may have been Louisiana's castor oil, but voters refused to swallow it. That leaves them with a choice between Duke, who is currently a state representative...
...minded first secretary of the Sverdlovsk district central committee; it was enough to bring him to the attention of another reformer from the hinterland, the newly installed Communist Party General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. Gorbachev soon appointed Yeltsin first secretary of the Moscow city party committee. Thereupon the tall, bulky technocrat seemed to settle into a sort of permanent guerrilla war with his superiors in the Politburo and with his often corrupt underlings throughout the city's rambling bureaucracy...