Word: game
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...type of game," Parker said. "We're not going to beat Harvard in that kind of game...
...just didn't come up big for us," said Fish, who made 22 saves. "I had a bad game. I put too much pressure on myself knowing how good they...
Baker is uncomfortable with what he and Bush call the "vision thing." When he was chief of staff, Baker once said he didn't need to have a vision "because the guy down the hall ((Reagan)) has one. I'm more interested in the game than in philosophy." With the new guy in the Oval Office equally at sea, the matter may fall to Baker by default...
...proximate reason for the embargo will soon end, but rewarding the Soviets for ceasing activities they never should have begun seems less important to him than trading the embargo's end for further moderations in Moscow's behavior. Linking U.S. actions to future Soviet concessions is what the game is all about. "Give away something unilaterally without a quid pro quo?" says Baker...
Later, in 1975, Bush persuaded President Ford to name Baker Under Secretary of Commerce. It was then that Baker first learned how to play the inside game. Ford was locked in a struggle for the 1976 Republican presidential nomination with Ronald Reagan. From his perch at Commerce, Baker was trying to help with Southern supporters by persuading the President to take a hard line against textile imports from China. At the same time, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger wanted nothing to upset the Chinese...