Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...commission was particularly obsessed by TCI chieftain Malone, who controls 22% of TBS and therefore wields veto power over its acquisition. Together, TCI and Time Warner control 40% of the U.S. cable market, and the FTC dearly wanted to limit Malone's influence. In response, the infamously brilliant strategist, not a man renowned for his negotiating generosity, clinched the deal by suggesting the creation of a spinoff company comprising up to 14.9% of Time Warner shares--a company that he would not control...
...boastful resume, which apparently went in for some title inflation: no one at Clinton-Gore '92 seems to recall a division of counterevent operations. The Chicken George operation, in fact, was cooked up in a Detroit tavern by two unemployed young men, "civilians" unaffiliated with the campaign. Strategist James Carville fell in love with the idea, and field workers like Livingstone began scouting for chicken suits. But when the White House didn't come clean on Feathergate, the Republicans saw an opening. But they tripped over another key rule of silly engagement...
...called Joe Shumate, a G.O.P. expert in political data analysis who had served as deputy chief of staff to California Governor Pete Wilson. Since Wilson's drive for the 1996 Republican presidential nomination had ended almost before it began, Lowell thought Shumate and George Gorton, Wilson's longtime top strategist, might be available to help Yeltsin. They were--and they immediately enlisted Richard Dresner, a New York-based consultant who had worked with them on many of Wilson's campaigns...
...Much of the success will depend on how well we can make a case for the funds for the center," Feagin said. "Jim is very talented. He is a terrific strategist and a wonderful fundraiser...
...generation of students and disciples. Some of them, including Irving Kristol and William Bennett, eventually became leading neoconservatives, the group that brought to American conservatism a measure of the intellectual legitimacy it had lacked for decades. Kristol's son William, the Weekly Standard editor and publisher and G.O.P. strategist, is another self-described Straussian...