Word: gurus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gilbert blew Mike and George off the front pages, as its record dimensions and ominous approach dominated news reports. Overnight, specialists like Bob Sheets, director of the National Hurricane Center in Miami, became trusted gurus, interpreting the big blow with computers. Somehow the storm seemed the violent culmination of a season in which Mother Nature has done anything but nurture, producing the hottest American summer in 50 years, a drought that parched the Midwest, forest fires that turned U.S. parks into cinders, floods that submerged large parts of Bangladesh and Sudan...
Ever since VCRs began to catch on, industry gurus have predicted an explosion of fare specially made for the home-video market. The explosion has arrived, in quantity if not in quality. No one knows how many nonmovie tapes have been released, but estimates hover between 7,000 and 10,000. A few genres -- notably exercise tapes, children's cassettes and rock-concert videos -- have established a niche in the market. But the rest are fighting for a relatively tiny number of viewers. Usually produced on a shoestring, these made-for-home-video cassettes are doing well if they sell...
Before the presidential campaign goes ballistic, a modest piece of advice for George Bush and Michael Dukakis: Fire your pollsters, banish your gurus and spend a week in Crook County, the crystal ball of presidential politics. Since this isolated county was created in 1882 in sagebrush-strewn central Oregon, its inhabitants have successfully picked 26 consecutive winners, from Grover Cleveland to Ronald Reagan...
Just like the gurus of Reaganomics, Peterson asserts that lifting the tax burden from the shoulders of the rich discourages consumption and promotes savings and investment. Really? Despite the generous taxation and spending policies of the Reagan administration, real fixed investment by corporations has increased only 2.6 percent per year under Reagan, compared to 7.1 percent under Jimmy Carter...
...even with an infected man. The vaginal secretions produced during sexual arousal, he wrote, keep the virus from penetrating the vaginal walls. His explanation: "Nature has arranged this so that sex will feel good and be good for you." Then came the news nobody wanted to hear: Sex Gurus William Masters and Virginia Johnson proclaimed in their new book about AIDS that "the epidemic has clearly broken out into the broader population" of heterosexuals, and that far more people are at great risk than previously thought. Even kissing, they declared, is not safe...