Word: transformer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Forbes doesn't so much transform the race as create one--if not in Iowa then certainly in New Hampshire, where his message could take hold, as well as in Delaware, Arizona, the Dakotas and South Carolina, the contests that follow. He has the means to dog Dole all the way to the convention if he chooses; and by refusing federal campaign funds, he can spend as much as he wants, wherever he wants. He has already shed upwards of $2 million in Arizona. In Iowa and New Hampshire he will spend at least twice what the law permits...
...year has shown him at his very best and his very worst. His discipline in pursuing his grand design revealed a level of political talent that few people outside his inner circle ever imagined he had. To wield that kind of power from the House required that he transform a weak, discredited institution into a humming legislative engine that could tow the Senate and White House behind it. He did it with such focus and shrewdness that even his opponents were perversely grateful. The House had been broken, and someone finally fixed...
...strength and my weakness," gingrich says, "is that I see normally impersonal events vividly and personally." Conviction and charisma helped him transform the House and press his agenda, but ego and hubris produced the major miscalculations. If the months leading up to the August break were played on offense, the fall was full of fumbles. For the first time, Gingrich had to close a deal, to bargain with someone whose interests were at odds with his own. He learned the hard way that this stage of the game, the stage at which Bob Dole is the unchallenged master...
...MORE THAN A DECADE HE HAS TOWERED OVER the world of computing like a boyish, tousle-haired colossus, controlling the software that runs our desktop computers and helping transform a hobbyist toy into the engine of a $100 billion industry...
...Norman Pearlstine; Walter Isaacson, who will become TIME's managing editor in January; executive editor Jim Kelly; chief of correspondents Joelle Attinger; and Washington bureau chief Dan Goodgame, the Speaker was a chastened man coping with the fact that he has become a liability to the party he helped transform. He arrived with his hair still wet from his morning swim, and his mood during the hour-and-a-half session was cautious; he remembered to rein himself in. In fact, he joked about how careful he has to be these days, quickly and comically correcting himself (changing "grotesque...