Word: strategist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...despite my best efforts to stoke them, the fires of rage have cooled. Was Roger Ailes the prisoner and Willie Horton the political strategist or the other way around? And what does it all have to do with starvation in Ethiopia, anyway? Yet, thanks to the peculiar economics of the direct-mail business, a heart that bleeds only sporadically and selectively is worse than a heart that doesn't bleed...
Henry is a world-class strategist. He has incredible stamina, which makes him a great negotiator. He'll wear you out. How he does it, I don't know. He has an insatiable appetite for all the treats they put on the table. Henry would sit there in negotiations, he'd have the peanuts out and the rest, and he'd be talking between mouthfuls. But on the other hand, that gave him the energy to keep going. But Henry needed...
...local parliament, Landsbergis was not an activist. "He was no more of a dissident than the rest of us," recalls Jonas Vruveris, a former colleague at the Vilnius State Conservatory, where Landsbergis used to lecture on the history of music. Landsbergis quickly gained a reputation as a shrewd strategist and within months emerged as Sajudis' chairman. "No one else has been so capable of forging a united position out of the multitude of positions that exist here," says member Eduardas Potasinskas...
...outdoor way of life. In a classic, cyclical conflict between the "smokestack" of job-creating development and the "geranium" of quality of life, public opinion today is clearly on the side of the geranium. "Environment, growth and crime are the big issues in this race," says Feinstein's chief strategist William Carrick. "In a way they are all rolled up into one: losing control of the California dream...
...assured a matronly audience, "An environmental ethic will pervade the administration of Governor Wilson from Day One." Obviously, Wilson was trying to distance himself on the environment from California's outgoing Republican Governor George Deukmejian and to lay at least some conservative claim to the issue. Insists Wilson strategist Otto Bos, with etymological aplomb: "The words conservation and conservative, after all, stem from the same root...