Word: guru
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mater, God and Man at Yale. His accomplishments would make the most energetic resume suffer blanche: editor and founder of his own conservative magazine (Reagan's announced favorite), television talk show host, syndicated newspaper columnist, lecture circuit fixture at $4,000 a fix, United Nations delegate under Nixon, and guru to conservatives everywhere...
...putting too much emphasis on military moves. Any such kooks do not include the Joint Chiefs, who have made it plain that they are concerned about increased military involvement in the region. Jeane Kirkpatrick, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, has been widely regarded as the Administration's intellectual guru on Latin American policy. She has argued long, hard and convincingly within Administration councils that the loss of Central America to Communist revolutionary regimes would be a devastating blow to U.S. security interests. But Kirkpatrick learned about the naval maneuvers from a reporter's questions. She is believed to consider...
...guru of therapeutic relaxation is Cardiologist Benson. Back in 1968 he was persuaded by practitioners of Transcendental Meditation to study the effects of the technique on the body. To his surprise, Benson found that TM could elicit dramatic physiological changes, including decreased heart rate, lower blood pressure and reduced oxygen consumption. Meditation, says Benson, sets off "a built-in mechanism that is the opposite of the fight-or-flight response." Practiced ten to 20 minutes once or twice daily, it has been shown, by Benson and others, to produce a lasting reduction in blood pressure and other stress-related symptoms...
...Reserve vice chairman last year. Walter Wriston, chairman of Citicorp and an outside Reagan adviser, is also mentioned, as are three former chairmen of the Council of Economic Advisers: Herbert Stein and Paul McCracken, who served under Richard Nixon, and Alan Greenspan, who was Gerald Ford's top guru...
...Gates is nothing that would interest Architectural Digest: freshly laundered shirts lie on the floor of an unfurnished second bedroom, a love letter is magneted to the kitchen fridge, the master bedroom holds a dresser, a few framed photos (Einstein, Jobs with his buddy Governor Jerry Brown, a guru), a mattress, an Apple II. He has forsaken vegetarianism ("Interacting with people has got to be seriously balanced against living a little healthier") and dresses with what might be called tailored informality. He is a work junkie, not a sybarite, and tends to see the simple, sensual pleasures in strictly practical...