Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Coach Cavanaugh insists he and his players won't be worrying about last October's 15-10 loss to the Crimson at Army's Michie Stadium. "We play each game for itself, and then look ahead," the second-year West Point strategist says, elucidating. "We're still a young team, but we've got more experience than in the past, and if a few big people come through, we'll be in any game...
Last week Shadow Cabinet Home Secretary Roy Hattersley, Healey's chief strategist, warned that the left's attempt to take control of the party manifesto "will alienate millions of our supporters, tearing the party into tatters and denying us the electoral victory the country needs." Noted the London Observer: "A fundamental battle about the nature of the Labor movement is now joined, with not only its policies but its whole direction within the body politic at issue...
That was enough bad news to convince investors that interest rates, instead of falling as the Administration has long promised, are likely to be going higher. Says William LeFevre, market strategist for the Wall Street investment banking firm of Purcell, Graham & Co.: "It is simple. Confidence that interest rates were going to come down has just collapsed. People have given up waiting...
Asked whom he had in mind, Bovin pulled from a pile of papers on his desk the summer 1980 issue of Foreign Policy magazine. He pointed to an article co-authored by Colin Gray titled, straightforwardly, "Victory Is Possible." Gray, a conservative nuclear strategist from the Hudson Institute, is now a consultant to the State Department. In the article he theorizes that, with greatly increased offensive and defensive programs, the U.S. could hold casualties in a war to 20 million-"a level compatible with national survival and recovery...
DIED. Ray Bliss, 73, veteran strategist of the Republican Party who, as its national chairman, played a key role in rebuilding the organization after Barry Goldwater's crushing loss to Lyndon Johnson in the 1964 presidential race; in Akron. After working in the 1931 mayoral election in his native Akron, Bliss rose through the G.O.P. ranks to become state chairman in 1949 and three years later joined the Republican National Committee, a post he retained until his retirement from politics last year. As national chairman from 1965 to 1969, he re-established the party's ties to young...