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...phenomenon of landsharking is not restricted to the bounds of Harvard University. Both Ultimate experts assured us that it is a global phenomenon that has no age limits. Ross explained that the diehard Ultimate gurus are actually buried as landsharks...
...safe to come out yet? No one really knows, but most market gurus agree that the economy is probably near the bottom even if it isn't exactly there yet. Sure, the Federal Reserve's seventh rate cut since January did little to inspire buying on Wall Street last week, but lower interest rates will eventually have a positive effect. Don't be concerned about the timing of the turn. You should be more focused on having a strategy in place to take advantage...
...late 1980s saw a backlash among management gurus against the idea of entrepreneurs running their own companies. Instead, professional managers came into vogue, so that at places like Apple, Lotus and even Ben & Jerry's, the founding fathers stepped, or were eased, aside. At Reebok, which had begun an aggressive push into foreign markets, the board feared that Fireman might finally be in over his head...
...then there's the seers. Jack Welch, management guru of management gurus, is expected to dispense some pearls of wisdom this week about how far corporate America is from daylight. Alan Greenspan hits the House on Wednesday to say something about the economy and nothing about interest rates, and then take questions. (Expect a lot of bombs lobbed about the tax cut, and for Greenspan to calmly reply that fiscal decisions aren't his cup of tea.) And of course the White House will be reminding everyone to please spend your tax rebate immediately, we could sure use the stimulus...
...popularizers," noted Dr. Robert Rose, executive director at the MacArthur Foundation's initiative on mind, brain, body and health research. "The loudest voices, the most passionate and articulate spokespersons for the power of the mind to heal come not from the research community but from the growing number of gurus ... the hawkers on TV for alternative treatments, herbs, homeopathy, handbooks." Rose distinguished the nostrum pushers from those seeking to bring yoga and science together. "Thousands of research studies have shown that in the practice of yoga a person can learn to control such physiological parameters as blood pressure, heart rate...