Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...volume on the New York Stock Exchange to an alltime one-day high. Moneymen had been expecting a year-end rally, but it never materialized. Then the bull market came roaring out of its pen as if it were bent on starting another rampage. Said William LeFevre, a market strategist with Purcell, Graham & Co.: "This was the week investors stopped looking at higher interest rates and started looking at corporate earnings." Trading on Thursday reached 159.99 million shares, well above the old mark of 149.35 million set two days after the 1982 congressional elections. Mounting a serious challenge...
Perception is reality. It has long been an axiom for soldiers. "All warfare is based on deception," said Sun Tzu, the great 4th century B.C. Chinese strategist whose prize pupil turned out to be Mao Tse-tung. The Greeks understood that principle when they set sail from Troy, leaving behind only a large wooden horse. Macduff knew it when he disguised his soldiers with branches from Birnam Wood as they marched against Macbeth. In World War II, the Allies created a phantom First U.S. Army Group, outfitted with rubber tanks and canvas landing barges (courtesy of the Shepperton movie studios...
Last week Glenn's political director, Joe Grandmaison, was fired. Replacing him was veteran Political Strategist Robert Keefe. He was given the new and somewhat nebulous title of senior adviser for political affairs. Though Keefe actually broke the news to Grandmaison, behind the shake-up was William White, Glenn's campaign manager, who described the personnel change as merely a "midcourse correction...
Having fulfilled what he saw as his "specific task." Lucey stepped down as ambassador, and soon signed up as a key strategist in Kennedy's presidential campaign. "My resignation came coincidentally at the time Ted was ready to launch his bid," he says. "Given that alternative, it wasn't difficult to see what I wanted to do next...
...sent to the front. Marshall finally relented and shipped him to England in 1942 to command U.S. forces there, even though he had never seen combat. Photogenic, affable and straight-talking, he turned out to be a press agent's dream-but a disaster as a strategist. Ike was too deferential to the British in North Africa and overly cautious in the Italian campaign; he became bogged down in squabbling with General Charles de Gaulle and Admiral Jean Darlan over France's fate. But he learned fast, and by December 1943, when he took command of all Allied...