Word: strategist
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...seen in eastern Canada as a boondoggle for the oil producers of Clark's native Alberta. Ontario's Tory Premier William Davis publicly clashed with Clark, arguing that Alberta was going to be enriched at the expense of jobs and industry in Ontario. As a senior Liberal strategist put it, "Clark broke the first rule of minority governments-you do things for people, not to them...
...Brown's strategist thought they had it all figured out. Their candidate showed surprising strength in 1976, when he captured primaries in California and Maryland and performed in Oregon, proving he could take Carter's measure in a head-to-head contest. The president, the Brown scenario went, would take care of Ted Kennedy--if and when he ran--sometime in the early going. With Kennedy knocked out, Brown would step in as the only viable alternative to another four years of a Carter White House. No such luck. The Brown war chest, says press secretary Larry Powers, is "down...
...also says that the Illinois campaign suffered the greatest financial setback when funds began to dry up after Kennedy's 2-1 defeat in Iowa last month. But despite Kennedy's woes in the Land of Lincoln, Carter's strategist does not predict overwhelming victory. "We're ahead at this point," Franks acknowledges, "but the election is almost a month away...
Back then though, Reagan strategists were still sunning in the August polls that had Reagan leading with 48 percent and George Bush pocketing a whopping 1 percent. John Sears, Reagan's top strategist, figured it was wisest to keep his man out of the fray (judging from Reagan's predilection for erratic public behavior. Sears had a point)--and retain the image of the untouchable front-runner. "It won't do any good to have Reagan going to coffees and shaking hands like the others," Sears explained before the Iowa caucuses. "People would get the idea that...
...French and the British in their time had been of the German strategy of the armored Blitzkrieg. There is a striking parallel between their faith in passive defenses anchored on the Maginot Line, and ours in a "sufficient" deterrent. The skill of the strategist consists of neutralizing the strategy of the enemy. All the available evidence suggests that the primary goal of Soviet strategic thinking and deployments for the past two decades has been to find ways of circumventing our nuclear deterrent as decisively as the Germans had circumvented the Maginot fortifications...