Word: strategist
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...need somebody who is both a gifted investment strategist and someone who is a good people person--if you can't get along with the people you have to work with in this business then you won't be successful," Daniel says. "And just as Walter has been, his successor will have to be a leader and an institution builder. We need to replicate the qualities that Walter has shown over the years...
What's going on here? The political terrain is shifting, and the smartest Republicans are scampering to keep pace. "The electorate's composition is % changing," says a G.O.P. strategist. "The baby boomers are taking over, and their credo is 'Live and let live.' " A move to the left could alienate Bush's base of antiabortion conservatives, he acknowledges, "but those people will probably stay with us in the end, and we'll need the young libertarians...
Atwater's "big tent" talk and Stone's new PAC are just two manifestations of a long-term strategy. "It's like perestroika," says a Bush adviser. "It takes time and hard work to change positions previously carved in stone." In other words, concedes the G.O.P. strategist, "the party is going to have to be hit over the head in the 1990 elections. Our big winners will likely be those who are pro-choice, our big losers those who are pro-life. It will take the shock of '90 before a change can really be set in motion...
...like an extra from Smokey and the Bandit. Even when his G.O.P. opponent attacked him for owning slum property and being reprimanded by the state supreme court for unduly delaying a client's case, the normally combative Wilder turned the other cheek. As Paul Goldman, Wilder's longtime backstage strategist, explains, "One of the things we learned in 1985 is that if you don't think about race, it doesn't matter." Wilder won with what, compared with last week's results, seems almost a landslide margin: nearly 52% of the vote...
...banking system Monday. Earlier, E. Gerald Corrigan, president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, urged officials in Japan and West Germany to support the U.S. dollar to help restore confidence in American markets. "The U.S. had excellent crisis management this time," said Heiko Thieme, the Manhattan-based chief strategist for West Germany's Deutsche Bank...