Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Using the proper title is turning out to be the least of the dilemmas of deportment facing Walter Mondale and Ferraro. "Mondale cannot, whatever he does, kiss her," says Political Strategist Patrick Caddell. But can he open a car door? Should he deferentially usher her into a room ahead of himself? Most political consultants say it is important that the nation's first coed ticket present itself as a professional team, not as a couple. For the convention finale, Mondale's advisers worked out a set of guidelines: Mondale and Ferraro would put their arms around their respective...
...eagle-feather episode was merely a minor diversion in comparison with what one Mondale strategist says "is still the No. 1 problem around the convention": Jackson's role. Mondale Campaign Manager Robert Beckel detected a cooperative mood during a three-hour private dinner over ribs with Jackson in Kansas City Monday night, and after the two candidates met for two hours the next day, they sounded warily friendly. Jackson handed Mondale a list of black and Hispanic women who, he said, should be considered as potential Vice Presidents. More substantive, Jackson pledged that "together we will prevail in November...
...said one Democratic political strategist, "He's still a stiff...
...rate of about $30 billion a year. This has become a kind of reverse foreign aid with the poor giving to the rich. The situation has brought criticism even from some American institutional investors, who think the banks are pumping a dry well. Says Barton Biggs, chief portfolio strategist at Morgan Stanley: "There is simply no way Citibank can continue to increase its earnings by 15% a year on the backs of millions of sullen Latin American peons...
...Viet Nam and Watergate. Just how deep that feeling runs can be seen in the outpouring of emotion that is greeting the Olympic torch as it wends its way across the American heartland (see following story). "The country has wanted a reason to feel confident," says Republican Political Strategist John Sears. "We've felt badly about ourselves for ten or 15 years...