Word: contrarian
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...gazing at us with obstinate skepticism. By posing as the craggy dissident, as if slumped in the corner of some dim café, the British-born journalist and author evidently seeks to cast himself as a morose rebel from the outset. The mission of Letters to a Young Contrarian, the latest addition to a career carved in stubborn public controversy, fits in nicely with this conceit: the seasoned revolutionary passes his wisdom onto flame-brained youth...
...Bush Administration got one part of this plan right - this check is really too small to save. With the Fed cutting rates, this is a borrower?s market, not a lender?s, and besides it seems a little unpatriotic to do something contrarian like put it in a 30-year Treasury Note (thus discouraging national-debt repayment) so my unborn heir can buy some $450 textbook at college in 25 years...
...starting to get impatient. This hill shows no sign of letting up, and very soon my ability to stay upright on my skis is going to be in serious jeopardy. "I need excuses, and I need them now!" I sternly demand. But my brain, ever the contrarian, returns the same analysis, resolutely refusing to help. This is all the more frustrating considering the unwanted torrent of feeble excuses my brain routinely releases in much more mundane and manageable circumstances. Now that I'm really in a jam, I need some "A" material, and all I get is crap...
...Chuck Schumer wanted to know how big a tax cut was "too big." Maryland Democrat Paul Sarbanes went after Greenspan with the jailyard shiv of Senate committee warfare - press clippings - quoting departed fiscal hero Robert Rubin and Newsweek contrarian Allan Sloan both savaging the idea of tax cuts based on these surplus projections...
...started three companies and sold one to AT&T before even thinking about WAP. But his best move was attending a 1994 wireless convention in Santa Clara, Calif., where "nobody was thinking about the wireless Internet in a serious way," recalls Rossman, 43. "I'm fortunate to be a contrarian...