Word: esoterica
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Google--he "has helped us understand the geopolitical role we play, the importance of building community," says CEO Eric Schmidt--and sits on the board of Apple Computer. At Apple's last quarterly meeting, the former Vice President led a discussion on stock-option "burn rates" and other esoterica of employee compensation. He keeps all those commitments alongside a busy schedule of speaking engagements, often about one of his greatest passions: the environment. His hour-long multimedia presentation on climate change is being translated into Chinese so that he can present it in Beijing later this summer...
According to shocked and baffled friends and classmates, Helder was also a visionary given to muddled, passionate harangues on immortality, astral projection and other esoterica. "He was definitely not one to conform. He would not settle for just any old explanation," says Amanda Dolan, 19, who took a college religion class with Helder and was charmed and impressed by his accounts of out-of-body experiences. "He said death is an illusion," Dolan continues. "He would also say, 'You are the same person after death...
...take our seats, and they're terrific. I think what's at work here is a combination of Chaz Scoggins, whom everyone likes, having great pull in this town, and also: Visitors from Westchester County are a little bit of esoterica in Lowell. The Spinners sell out all their tickets before Opening Day, but we guests from exotic lands, dignitaries from afar, get to sit a dozen rows up and square behind home. Caroline is rubbing her hands together with the thrill of it all. In the midst of a year that has seen too many hospital visits...
Technical analysts are right up there with lawyers, the opposite sex and people from New Jersey when Wall Streeters start cracking wise. Poor souls, no one understands them. Least of all me. Technicians draw lines through stock charts, studying trading volume, new highs and lows and other esoterica to divine whether the market will go up or down. They're right--half the time. (Sorry, I couldn't help myself.) Still, that record makes technical types just as bankable as the more respected fundamental analysts, who study things like earnings and interest rates...