In the summer of 1994, Coelho was the principal Democratic political strategist during the run-up to the mid-term Congressional elections.

Saki Macozoma, chairman of the Congress's elections commission and a principal strategist, denied that the party is complacent, saying its national leaders will campaign hard this weekend.

"This is the beginning of a process, and while we've had great success so far, there's a lot to be done," said Karl Rove, the campaign's principal strategist.

During the 1982 and 1986 California gubernatorial campaigns, Khachigian was senior adviser and principal strategist for Governor George Deukmejian.

But Rustin was the principal strategist.

Once one of the company's principal strategists, he now spends his time working on wildlife preservation and environmental issues in Zimbabwe, where he was born.

Microsoft's principal strategist and its chairman, William H. Gates, did not attend the Mountain View gathering, but he consulted by telephone with the Microsoft team.

Raymond G. Torto, principal and chief strategist of Torto Wheaton, said the slowdown was a predictable reaction to the problems in the auto and housing markets.

Chris W. Cox is the NRA's chief lobbyist and principal political strategist, a position he has held since 2002.

He speculated that the principal strategist of the coup was Vladimir A. Kryuchkov, the former chief of the K.G.B.