As the godfather of how-to-succeed books, Franklin had propounded a fundamental rule for winning friends: always play to their pride and vanity by constantly seeking their opinion and advice, and they will admire you for your judgment and wisdom.
They consider it a fundamental qualification for winning the support of their conservative base.
But a primary campaign really is a lot like a baseball season: When it's a competition rather than a coronation, it's long enough and grueling enough that form and fundamentals win out over hot streaks and good fortune.
The speech by Mr. Giuliani reflected a decision — other campaigns suggested "gamble" might be a better word — to address head-on a fundamental obstacle to his winning the nomination: his long history as a moderate Northeast Republican in a party increasingly dominated by Southern and Midwestern conservatives.
But today, with the release of the President's Cancer Panel report Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk: What We Can Do Now, we may see a fundamental shift toward a winning strategy.
Time is perhaps our most precious commodity and those that make it a fundamental aspect of their business will win – and win big.
Paid overtime is a fundamental protection, hardly revolutionary, but winning it would be a huge victory for domestic workers, whom federal law excludes from most bedrock labor protections.
These two books share the view that most of the current difficulties with Iran, Iraq, North Korea and even Russia can be traced back to a fundamental misapprehension — that the United States won the cold war and the Soviet Union lost it.
Paul J. Cohen, a versatile mathematician whose path-breaking work in the field of logic helped resolve a fundamental question of mathematics and won for him the prestigious Fields Medal, died of a lung disease on March 23 in Stanford, Calif.
In ODI cricket he averages in excess of 50, unique for an England player of any consequence, and he has been a fundamental part of three Ashes winning series, and the rise to No1 in the rankings in Tests and ODIs.
