Word: guru
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lear believes she has barely begun, with the magazine and with what she considers the start of the second half of her life. She is already considering expanding into retailing. "These women require different services: makeup, clothing," she says. "I would like to be the guru for women over 40." So far, she has the field to herself...
...allowing American installations on their soil at any price. One reason is their belief that the bases are less likely to be used against a threat posed by the Soviet Union than against a state like Libya, whose primary offense would probably be directed against the U.S. Writes Neoconservative Guru Irving Kristol in the Wall Street Journal: "What they do fear is getting entangled in a conflict that serves American interests but not their own. In short, what was once defined as an identity or at least mutuality of interests has ceased...
...defeated Sioux in the 1890s, who believed that if they practiced a particular ritual purification and circle dance, the spirits would intervene and drive away the otherwise all-powerful white conquerors. Hence, Gitlin argues, the encounter culture of the Seventies, when many old radicals drifted unhappily from guru and method to method, seeking the lost solidarity and exhilarating sense of purpose of their Movement days...
Sporting a cowboy hat and his trademark Mickey Mouse tie, Ronald Reagan's onetime political guru Lyn Nofziger strode into federal district court last week to become the first person to stand trial for violating the 1978 Ethics in Government Act. Nofziger, who resigned as a White House aide in January 1982, is accused of illegally lobbying the Administration on behalf of three clients, including the scandal-plagued Wedtech Corp...
...inmate had turned down an offer for a parole hearing in 1985. "She seemed O.K. to me," said Associate Warden Maureen Atwood. "But she's kind of strange." Authorities speculated that Fromme might have heard unconfirmed rumors that Manson was dying of cancer and become desperate to see her guru...