Word: guts
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...When Americans pass over the best-credentialed candidates because their heart or their gut leads them elsewhere, they are only reflecting a visceral understanding that the presidency involves tests unlike all others. They are, perhaps, seeking the ineffable quality the writer Katherine Anne Porter had in mind when she defined experience as "the truth that finally overtakes you." An ideal President is both ruthless and compassionate, visionary and pragmatic, cunning and honest, patient and bold, combining the eloquence of a psalmist with the timing of a jungle cat. Not exactly the sort of data you can find...
...Whatever the findings of the latest PPIC research, it will do little to cool the passions on either side of the issue. When debating immigration, says Mears, "it doesn't matter what the empirical evidence shows; people react with their gut feelings first...
...what does this mean for how we should contemplate our next big decision? For Gilbert, it's simple. "When looking into the future, never trust your gut. That doesn't mean it's always wrong, you should just never trust it. It never hurts to stop...
...THIS IS A DIFFICULT JOB FOLKS. I JUST GOT THE WIND KNOCKED OUT OF ME. One of Columbia's forwards crashed into the Press Row, driving the table right into my gut. I got the wind knocked out of me, but I'm ok. Harvard isn't however, as they're clinging on to a one point lead. Harvard 48, Columbia...
...situation, the organization declined to comment, and repeated attempts to contact the Obama and Clinton campaigns were ignored (What about the student vote, spokespeople?) The DNC is likely embarrassed that this wonderful and energizing primary, in which a record number of Democrats have voted, might be decided by the gut feelings of DNC officials, or by which Cabinet position a senator thinks he can get if Obama or Clinton moves into the White House. How un-Democratic...