Word: bandwagons
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...policy's rationale is that it sends the money directly where it is needed, bypassing unnecessary bureaucracy. After last fall's much-heralded education summit in Charlottesville, a number of politicians were quick to jump on the deregulatory bandwagon--including Rappaport, a 34-year old Concord business magnate who has never run for public office...
Barry Gifford, on whose novel the film was based, blames the critics for the film's lukewarm reception. "The faux intelligentsia can jump on or off a bandwagon," he notes. "Andre Gide said that writers should expect to lose 50% of their audience with each new work, that the rest never understood it in the first place. Perhaps that has happened to David...
...have hopes that over time others would get on the bandwagon and institutions like Harvard and MIT will donate land," says Stockard...
Getting on the Bandwagon...
Investment analysts believe the rush to stocks has been sparked in part by the perception that the sluggish economy will be perked up by falling interest rates. As the Wall Street surge has built up steam, more and more small investors and mutual funds have jumped on the bandwagon for fear of missing the rally...