Word: edward
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...book and picked the players. Their apt casting for President: former Secretary of State (and presidential candidate) Edmund Muskie. His nine advisers included two former Defense Secretaries: James Schlesinger, who had that title again, and Clark Clifford, who played the Secretary of State. Former Army Chief of Staff General Edward Meyer, who reluctantly wore his uniform, acted as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The group was well-balanced ideologically-improbably so-but a certain tilt existed: eight of the nine players served the Carter Administration...
...Edward N. Luttwak, a senior fellow at the Georgetown University Center for Strategic and International Studies, argues that every President becomes fully sensitized to the awesome power at his command through the military budget process. Virtually all spending calculations, explains Luttwak, are based on a weapon's destructive effects: how many millions would be killed, cities destroyed, regions contaminated. There is no way a President could succumb to reflexive nuclear revenge, even if he is surrounded by old cronies who, after a couple of bourbons, suggest it is time to "nuke 'em." From the man who carries...
...events have stirred greater excitement throughout the organization," says Chairman Edward Telling, 64. Others might have added: "Or greater fear." Sears' previous two attempts to reshape its merchandising image ended in embarrassing failure. In the early 1970s, Sears decided to compete with the specialty stores then springing up around its suburban shopping malls. But a former Bloomingdale's fashion director who was hired to move the company into high-fashion merchandise succeeded only in turning off Sears' traditional value-oriented shopper. In the mid-'70s, Sears tried to go up against fast-growing discounters like...
...laid out the company's woes in a disarmingly direct manner. "We are not a fashion store, we are not a store for the whimsical, nor the affluent," it declared. "Sears is a family store for middleclass, homeowning Americans." To refocus the company, Telling in 1980 promoted Edward Brennan, a third-generation company man, to head the merchandise group-to the astonishment of longtime employees; Brennan was only 46 at the time...
...Georgetown. Prominent among the absentees was Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, 54, who spent the day in Hyannisport, Mass., with the President's mother, Rose, 93. Also missing: John Kennedy Jr., 23, who is studying in India. Among those at the site of the eternal flame were Senator Edward Kennedy, 51, Eunice Shriver, 62, and Caroline, 26. Said Senator Kennedy of his brother during the special tribute: "There was a spark in him so special. His thousand days will be remembered for a thousand years and more. We miss you, Jack, and always will...