Word: gurus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Resources Committee: "Even economists who see the beginning of a recovery acknowledge that it is likely to be weak. And an upturn will not put an end to the basic problems affecting the changing work force." Concurs Harvard's Reich, who has been one of the Democrats' chief economic gurus: "Efforts to improve productivity by using a slash-and-burn policy with employees could backfire. The remaining workers can be resentful and demoralized because they are stuck doing two jobs or more. It may all backfire and lead to lower productivity...
Senator JAY ROCKEFELLER'S decision last week to bow out of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination was welcome news for Bush's campaign gurus. After digging into the patrician West Virginian's past, Bush handlers concluded their "opposition research" had turned up virtually nothing negative. The best the Bushies could do was a 1984 book chiding Rockefeller for zigzagging on a few issues. "He made a mistake by pulling out," says a White House adviser. "And we're glad...
Reliance is not alone. Since the early 1960s, when assorted gurus proclaimed the imminent arrival of the Information Age, businesses and consumers have been eagerly awaiting its coming -- and with it, the "paperless" office and the "cashless" society. Among the techno-prophets' predictions: home shopping, electronic libraries, personal computers on every desk, soaring worker productivity, uninterrupted growth. As a result, thousands of companies invested heavily in information technology in hopes of gaining a competitive edge. Other firms, including hardware manufacturers and software developers, placed equally large bets on supplying the markets for home and office automation...
Sampling enthusiasts range from the funk-and-roll bands Faith No More and Fishbone to the avant-garde gurus David Byrne and Brian Eno. On Fishbone's acclaimed new album, The Reality of Our Surroundings, the band incorporates church bells and human screams. "We use sampling to enhance the integrity of our music," says drummer Phillip Fisher. "Butif you put a collage together, you should give credit to the places you got your pieces from...
Baltimore and his former colleagues at M.I.T. owe O'Toole an apology, if not a job. And like other scientists currently facing critical scrutiny -- including AIDS researcher Robert Gallo and cold-fusion gurus Martin Fleischmann and B. Stanley Pons -- they owe it to themselves to take a close look at their thin-skinned response. Making mistakes is part of science. But blindly denying the possibility of error goes against the heart of the scientific method. Baltimore seems to have worried more about a colleague's reputation than about the truth of a junior researcher's complaint...