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Keswick (pronounced keh-zik), the seventh taipan of that name to run Jardines since its founding in 1832, was impressed, and persuaded Powers to join the company in 1986 as chief strategist. Powers helped engineer a ! restructuring that reduced the firm's debt load and bolstered its earnings. The company's profits surged 64% in 1987, to a record $100.4 million...
...according to Anne H. Taylor, the University's anti-union strategist, the process of defining voter eligibility is not cut and dry, and may need to be adjudicated by the NLRB. She added thatboth sides are legally bound to determine whoshould be represented by a newly formed union...
Despite his alacrity for inclusion, he has been rebuffed by repeated exclusions in the past. Ann Lewis, the Democratic strategist, remembers one of her first endeavors with Jackson. They were at the Japanese embassy in Washington, part of a delegation to protest racially condescending remarks made by Premier Nakasone. "Before we went out to meet the press," she recalls, "Jesse gathered us together and said, 'We cannot contribute to any further racism. These people do not know how much trouble they are in, and we must not add to the flames by our remarks.' " Then, as Jackson drove Lewis home...
...mold even as his private pollsters were insisting that Democratic voters in the South were as uninterested in nuclear strategy as voters elsewhere. But Gore stubbornly refused to modify his approach, even though his record was far less right-of-center than his rhetoric was. According to a top strategist for the candidate, "99% of the problem was Gore's. He refused to give a clearer message and forget about all this defense business...
...they passed Holyoke Center, where the University's anti-union strategist Anne H. Taylor has her office, the buses slowed down long enough for the supporters to cheer, sing and wave fists out the window...