Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reassert his leadership, which is how some aides (and much of the press) had been overbilling it. But it was an important chance to demonstrate that he was taking charge of the Iranscam mess and to advance imaginative new goals that might help him recapture the initiative. One Republican strategist who has long worked with Reagan admitted privately that it was a bad speech for the current situation, but that the President used it because he felt comfortable with...
...major market upsurge that might last anywhere from two to five years. That would be a truly extraordinary event, since the current bull has already lasted for 52 months, nearly twice as long as the 30-month average life of postwar bull markets. Nonetheless, declares Steven Einhorn, chief portfolio strategist for the Goldman Sachs investment house, "there is a lot of life left in this bull market...
...below $10 in April and remained under $15 for most of the year. The low prices distressed the Saudi royal family and provoked anger from other OPEC countries, prompting the Saudis in October to oust Yamani as Oil Minister after he had spent two decades as a leading OPEC strategist. With that, the Saudis abandoned their price-war tactics. When OPEC met in December, twelve of its 13 members, with Iraq dissenting, decided to cut production and sell their various grades of oil at fixed prices averaging $18 per bbl. While the pact boosted market prices to near that level...
...Francis Bouchey, a Council for National Policy member, says North was a "very effective speaker" but not the master strategist for coordinating the private contra-aid efforts. "I would call Ollie and bounce ideas off him," says Bouchey, "but he was very busy and not really that helpful...
...staff. "I don't have foreign policy under me," Regan protests. Such claims hardly ring true to most in Washington. Says one first-term Reagan staff alumnus: "It's clear that Regan's calling the shots. He's the de facto National Security Adviser, the de facto legislative strategist . . . the de facto President...