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...integration of entertainment electronics hardware and software. Like Morita, Idei is cosmopolitan, speaking fluent English and French and favoring stylish suits. As a youth he dreamed of becoming a violinist but gave that up to major in economics at Tokyo's Waseda University. Idei is now Sony's guru, instructing engineers--his Digital Dream Kids--in the art of merging home electronics with information technology. "We're going to make the home much more exciting," Idei predicts...
Abby Cohen, the closely watched market guru at Goldman Sachs, has become mildly unnerved by the Dow's 10% rise in recent weeks--a gain she had expected would take all year. But she's raising her target anyway. Ralph Acampora, a veteran at Prudential Securities, two years ago predicted the move to 7000. Now that it's happened, his new target is 8250. And once we get there? On to 10,000, natch. Meanwhile, pundits who do make a bear stand don't last. Elaine Garzarelli, known for her 1987 warning, issued another late last summer but has already...
Despite his hard hearts, this candy guru also seems to be very successful in the business of love...
...offering by language guru and Lecturer on Linguistics Bert R. Vaux, Linguistics 80 is a survey of varieties of ancient and modern English--from Australian to "Valley Girl," Creole to Yiddish English...
...giant of psychotherapy, a survivor of two Nazi prison camps (Dachau and Buchenwald) who pioneered in the treatment of emotionally troubled children. In 18 books (including Love Is Not Enough and The Uses of Enchantment) and dozens of articles and TV appearances, he was an all-knowing guru to millions on topics ranging from the meaning of fairy tales to parent-child relations...