Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...State Department, characteristically, is the stronghold of what might be called pragmatic traditionalists and Atlanticists, men like Eagleburger and Assistant Secretary for Europe Richard Burt, a former think-tank strategist and New York Times reporter. They believe that it is critically important to maintain close ties with America's allies and that it is still possible for the U.S. to sit down with the Soviets even as it stands up to them...
...realistic and open-ended approach to nuclear strategy and arms control is essential if we are to avoid a disaster in the future. At the same time, we must guarantee our nation's security. Master Strategist Kissinger has offered such an approach in his analysis of the nuclear labyrinth. Our elected representatives in Congress should consider Kissinger's suggestions before embracing the simplistic approach of the nuclear freeze movement...
...other market experts, including Morgan Stanley's chief portfolio strategist, Barton Biggs, have been warning that many high-tech issues are overrated. Some are selling at prices as high as 50 times their earnings; the average price for the 500 stocks in Standard & Poor's Index is about 13 times earnings. Says Zeikel: "It's true that some high-tech stocks have gotten ahead of themselves." But he argues that the overall high-tech trend is up and that the funds will ride up with...
Upturns in the market have presaged recoveries during all eight postwar recessions (indicated above in red). "On the average, the market is five months ahead of an upturn in the economy," says Barton Biggs, chief portfolio strategist at Morgan Stanley & Co., '"and it did it again." Moreover, the market was not fooled last spring, as many economists were, when the economy made a brief uptick, only to sink back into the doldrums...
...lock grip of its Democratic political machine, Washington campaigned vigorously against the party organization and sought to write its obituary. "By today's vote the Democratic Party has been returned to the people," he said. "It is all over for the machine," agreed Don Rose, a Democratic strategist who worked for Byrne in 1979. "Washington is not going to rebuild...