Word: strategist
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...adrift as it is, the right understandably feels anxious as it contemplates who will carry Reagan's mantle into November 2008. "We're in the political equivalent of a world without the law of gravity," says Republican strategist Ralph Reed. "Nothing we have known in the past seems relevant." At the top of the Republican field in the latest TIME poll is the pro-choice, pro-gay-rights former mayor of liberal New York City. Giuliani's lead is as much as 19 points over onetime front runner McCain. But neither Republican manages better than a statistical...
...That's one way of looking at it. Another is to observe that while changes in risk appetite may not be predictable, they do follow a certain logic. "We view financial risk much like popcorn popping in a microwave," Merrill Lynch investment strategist Richard Bernstein wrote in January. "Until the first kernel pops, one tends to believe that nothing is happening. The initial pop seems like a random event until a second occurs. A third. A fourth. Then the popping goes wild...
...November 2005, suburban residents registered in droves to vote for the first time. Conventional wisdom had it that most would support the left. But in the last few years, Le Pen has consciously tried to broaden his political appeal, in a makeover masterminded by his daughter and political strategist Marine. The younger Le Pen has persuaded her father to tone down his more controversial policies, avoid the inflammatory comments that have earned him court convictions in the past, reach out to minorities prepared to work with the party, and project himself, as Le Pen recently put it, as "a candidate...
That's one way of looking at it. Another is to observe that while changes in risk appetite may not be predictable, they do follow a certain logic. "We view financial risk much like popcorn popping in a microwave," Merrill Lynch investment strategist Richard Bernstein wrote in January. "Until the first kernel pops, one tends to believe that nothing is happening. The initial pop seems like a random event until a second occurs. A third. A fourth. Then the popping goes wild...
...unavailable. While Pope John Paul II's constant travels kept him somewhat separated from the workings of the Vatican bureaucracy, Benedict and Bertone are instead expected to work hand in hand on all matters, foreign and domestic. The Pope will need his No. 2 as both a political strategist and a sort of chief of operations, which will give Benedict the space to pursue the intellectual and theological aspects of the job that he prefers. Moreover, if Benedict hopes to continue streamlining the governance of the church--which would include interrupting the ambitions of top prelates--he will have...