Word: gurus
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...least, Coleman and a chorus of like-minded gurus may well have it right. Since the Dow stood at 3300 four years ago, the tireless trend of the market has reflected an astonishingly resilient and inflation-free U.S. expansion that, like the Energizer Bunny, just keeps going. The economy grew at a robust 4.7% rate in the fourth quarter of 1996, for example, and last week the government reported that consumer prices rose a barely perceptible 0.1% in January...
Brescia was indicted along with Mark William Thomas, one of the more eloquent gurus of the Aryan Nations movement. Thomas is accused of recruiting young men to rob banks on behalf of the Aryan Republican Army. Using handguns, wearing bulletproof vests and, at one point, Santa suits, the gang hit banks in Ohio, Iowa, Missouri and Wisconsin in 1994 and 1995. Brescia joined the gang in August 1995, after another indictee, Scott Stedeford, drove to Elohim City to pick...
Gates' vast wealth is surpassed only by his enormous ego. He is a bright techno-geek who simply got lucky with some basic programming, then hired the right marketing gurus and cornered the emerging software market. Gates' pathological personality traits show him to be more akin to Attila the Hun and Genghis Khan than Albert Einstein; his ruthless and paranoid approach to business practice is driven not by intellect but by pathetic will-to-power. JAIMIE BUCHANAN Toronto...
...noted when Gates was in sixth grade. "In Bill's eyes," says Glaser, "he's still a kid with a startup who's afraid he'll go out of business if he lets anyone compete." Esther Dyson, whose newsletter and conferences make her one of the industry's fabled gurus, is another longtime friend and admirer who shares such qualms. "He never really grew up in terms of social responsibility and relationships with other people," she says. "He's brilliant but still childlike. He can be a fun companion, but he can lack human empathy." "If we weren...
...threat to their safety and sovereignty was identified for them. There was no need to guess, speculate, strategize or ponder the state of the world and the balance of power. In other words, one might suspect that medieval Constantinople did not boast the best job market for foreign policy gurus...