Word: strategist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Clinton plan is surprisingly persuasive in supporting the longtime claim of the Clintons and their top health-care strategist, Ira Magaziner, that reform can be financed almost entirely from savings, without broad-based new taxes and with enough left over to reduce the federal budget deficit. Ever since the campaign, when Clinton first floated this claim, budget experts have derided it as a "free lunch" approach. But now the President has backed it up with tough choices on spending -- choices that might prove politically impractical or diminish the quality of health care, but which at least demonstrate his seriousness...
...slow but steady tempo has a positive side of its own. Among other things, it gives investors the confidence to put their money in longer-term investments. On Wall Street outspoken bulls insist that the stock market still has plenty of room to grow. Elaine Garzarelli, an investment strategist for Lehman Bros., looks for the Dow to hit 4000 by the end of the year and climb to 4600 in 1994. "My feeling is that any correction would be minor," Garzarelli says. "Interest rates would have to go up to offer an alternative to money going into stocks...
...economy, which, like a surgical patient who must feel worse before he can get better, might need to endure modestly higher unemployment for several years as the price of reform. Trouble is, Clinton has not prepared the public for any sacrifice. He and his top health-care strategist, Ira Magaziner, have been selling health-care reform as a four-course free lunch. Everyone will be covered. It won't require new taxes. It will immediately boost job creation. And it will immediately reduce the federal deficit. "Several of us," says a political adviser to Clinton, "are worried that...
...recruited top executives from outside, including Alex Mandl, former president of the Sea-Land ocean-shipping concern, as chief financial officer; Jerre Stead, former chief executive of electrical-equipment maker Square D, as head of the computer division; and Richard Bodman, of the Comsat satellite-communications consortium, as top strategist. Allen also brought in managers from small Silicon Valley firms to help teach AT&T's stodgy staff the newest tricks of the trade...
...Richard Nixon's White House in 1971, served as communications director to Gerald Ford and was what several Bush loyalists described as a "fair-weather friend" in 1980. As assistant to chief of staff James Baker in the Reagan White House, Gergen emerged as a skilled wordsmith and political strategist, helping design the 100-day plan for winning Reagan's revolutionary tax cuts. Gergen aggressively courted reporters and earned a reputation as a world-class leaker, but nonetheless lost a contest with deputy press secretary Larry Speakes to be Reagan's top spokesman. Distrusted by the harder-line Reaganauts, Gergen...