Word: crowded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only that: apart from a scattering of rock throwing and puncturing of company truck tires, the strikers were following a new strategy of civil disobedience, staging sit-ins and getting themselves arrested for "obstructing free passage." The leaders even called in the Rev. Jesse Jackson to exhort a cheering crowd of 10,000 that gathered in the village of Wise. "The tradition of John L. Lewis and Martin Luther King Jr. have come together!" he cried. "You are in pain, but don't panic...
...Frank, who writes his Prudent Speculator in Santa Monica, Calif., took a turn slowly, slowly in the wind when his portfolio of recommended stocks dropped 50% in 1987. He recovered with a 49% gain last year, but the crowd may string him up yet again. "People think too much about the market," he tells his audience, comfortable in the subtle distinction that what he thinks about roughly 14 hours a day is companies, not market fluctuations. He espouses the solid, old-fashioned idea of buying good companies cheap and sticking with them long-term, with the added fillip of using...
...crowd picks through the offerings carefully, learning something about what makes Al Frank and Stan Weinstein and possibly also the market tick. They search for revealing new indicators or for an unknown face who has it all figured out (a hidden imam, in the jargon). They browse among new ideas, like one newsletter's espousal of the "butterfly effect," the chaos theory that a hurricane in the Caribbean may be caused by an unknown butterfly flapping its , wings six months earlier somewhere in Brazil, and that, by analogy, there are no hidden imams because it's all too complicated...
...increasing desperation with which orchestras pursue the same handful of podium personalities. It is | not that there are too few good conductors, but that there are so few who meet the economic requirements: a hefty recording contract, a telegenic personality and the ability to pull in a crowd both at home and on the road. In the U.S. a conductor must also subject himself (there are no women on the short list) to endless rounds of glad-handing and fund raising, while in Berlin he must have the political skills of a Franz von Papen to deal with a fractious...
...publisher of Golf Digest, "it was perceived as a game for fat, rich, old white guys." Today 40% of the 2 million newcomers are women, and club pros see an increasing number of African Americans and Hispanics concentrating on 10-ft. putts. Golf is also appealing to a younger crowd. And it shows. Myrtle Beach, S.C., for example, has evolved from a secluded, two-course resort town into a family golfing Mecca with 49 public and ten private links. "It's the perfect sport for the 'I'm-in-control generation,' " says Binford. Nor is it so hard...