Word: guru
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...watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people." Beckett does emphasize, however, that the monetarism that became Chile's economic creed under Pinochet, and Britain's under Thatcher, was imported from the University of Chicago. Economist Milton Friedman, who was to become a guru to future Thatcher adviser Alan Walters, "rejected the socially conscious economics that had dominated the thinking of democratic governments since the Great Depression of the 1930s," writes Beckett. Under Pinochet and Thatcher, emphasis on the rough-and-tumble of the free market "had unpleasant implications for the trade unions, the poor...
...Bush and his political guru Karl Rove (whom Bush alternately addresses as "Boy Genius" and "Turd Blossom") have already encountered a fair number of problems in California. Winning there won't be easy: the California Republican Party has been in bad shape for more than four years. Rove is hoping to resuscitate it by helping in the campaign against Democratic Governor Gray Davis, but he's had nothing but trouble so far. First, Rove decided the best way to beat Davis was for Bush to handpick the ideal nominee. Bush threw his weight behind Richard Riordan, the moderate former...
...most Americans think of it as being a little peculiar. There's plenty peculiar about the Hives. Having grown up in the mining town of Fagersta (pop. 13,000), the band members, now all in their early 20s, claim they were brought together as schoolboys by an unlikely sounding guru known as Randy Fitzsimmons. From the start, the Hives tried to replicate the sounds of the punk rock and '50s soul music they loved. There were two problems. The first--overcome through years of dedicated strumming and banging--was that they had no prior acquaintance with musical instruments. The second...
...trading; in New York City. Waksal is accused of trying to unload his shares and telling two shareholders to sell their stock the day before the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced it was rejecting ImClone's application for the approval of Erbitux. Waksal's close friend, American domestic guru Martha Stewart, sold her shares in the company just before the announcement but has denied that she was tipped...
...tapping into hot-button issues, the question now is not if but when he will run for Governor. "You in New York are so blessed to have an attorney general who just showed what it was like to be a Democrat," James Carville, Bill Clinton's old political guru, gushed in his keynote address to a party convention in New York City last month. "General Spitzer, I think they ought to nominate you as Democrat of the Year...