Word: maverickness
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...Maverick Mogul TIME's Feb. 16, 1968, cover story profiled John Kenneth Galbraith, the influential economist, diplomat and prolific author who died in April...
...category, like the yogurt, has not always been smooth and palatable. A maverick, yogurt rode with the Mongol horde, flourished in the Caucasus Mountains of Russia and has been cultured by generations around the globe. Then pale, viscous and teeming with live bacteria, it arrived from the fringes into the fridges of health nuts. When Yoplait Original appeared on shelves in 1977, "you had to be a committed health-food person to eat it," says General Mills CEO Steve Sanger. Yoplait had to convince Americans that they would love its signature creamy texture, but it also had to keep...
...Well before the Budget, great hopes were held by the urgers. Maverick M.P.s, think tanks, business lobbyists, welfare groups and opinionaters shot out a stream of ideas for things to do with revenues swollen by the resources jackpot. A short list included tax cuts, for companies and individuals; more investment in skills development, education and research; increasing workforce participation and raising national savings; improving child-care arrangements; and modernizing infrastructure, especially broadband, roads, railways and ports. The government certainly delivered in some of these areas, but the programs were scattered and underfunded; they seemed like mere sops to the policy...
Rumors abounded last week that Tom Cruise wanted to hoover his newborn’s afterbirth. After our gossip sources ruefully reported the story was a “joke,” FM turned to a Harvard Medical School professor to determine whether Maverick was missing...
...unease over China's rising diplomatic and military clout, but will seek to calm concerns over America's ballooning trade deficit with China, which topped $200 billion in 2005. Ideally, Hu would also like to hear a reaffirmation from Bush that Washington rejects any moves by Taiwan's maverick President Chen Shui-bian toward a declaration of independence from the mainland. But whatever Bush says about Taiwan, which the U.S. has pledged to help defend, Hu's most important achievement in Washington may simply be turning up. "From a domestic Chinese point of view," says the Carnegie...