Word: tactician
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...coordinated well with the White House staff; as a result, National Security Adviser Richard Allen is not laying before Reagan the detailed analyses of foreign policy problems and options that previous Presidents got from stronger aides. A third difficulty is that Secretary of State Haig is more of a tactician than a strategist, and has surrounded himself with aides of like mind; they tend almost reflexively to muscular, ad hoc responses toward particular problems, frequently focusing on the shipment of arms abroad as a prime method of diplomacy. Finally, Reagan himself, lacking experience in foreign affairs and concentrating mostly...
...from a rare athletic symbiosis. Forward Bobby Gross was injured for most of the season, and when he did play was so shell-shocked by the devastating changes that he was unable to blend into the new club. Presiding over it all was Coach Jack Ramsay, a fiercely proud tactician who did not coach as much as seek a vision of perfection on court. Ramsay was in turn bewildered, angry and, finally, bitter over the unraveling of the ideal...
...Zionist all his life. At 14, he signed on with GADNA, then an underground paramilitary youth organization defending Jewish settlements. During a military career that spanned nearly three decades he earned a reputation both as a swashbuckling, Patton-like commander who sometimes overstepped his orders and as a brilliant tactician. In 1953 he created an international incident by leading an Israeli raid into Jordan that left 69 Jordanian civilians dead. Miffed because he had been passed over for the post of chief of staff, he resigned from the army in 1973 to seek a political career. When his reserve unit...
...Future, "I already knew the Internationale. "After World War II, Mauroy became a teacher and began working at Socialist Party headquarters in Paris. He eventually moved to Lille and became mayor in 1973. Mauroy's meeting with Mitterrand in 1965 was a union between a dogged tactician and a strategic visionary that helped transform the party. In the early 1970s, Mitterrand visualized a broad alliance with the Communist Party; Mauroy hammered out the details. When the alliance collapsed, Mauroy brought the idealistic Mitterrand back to the pragmatic center. The new Premier is expected to pursue what is possible, unblinded...
Last year, Norton's sailing teammates recognized her abikity, dedication, and competitive spirit by electing her captain of the combined (men's and women's) team. Norton, the first woman ever to hold that post, has displayed her racing prowess against both men and women. With Norton as tactician ("the person who runs the show,"--coach Mike Horn) and the only woman on board, Harvard won the MacMillan Cup in Annapolis, Md., her junior year...