Word: gutting
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...gut reaction is that [Larry Houston] should be expelled.” Boulerice laughs and then adds more seriously. “I think it’s not constructive to have that on campus...
...luck than with ability. In the end, our final cut of the last four highly qualified applicants had nothing to do with talent (because they were all talented), and everything to do with writing styles. Surface characteristics suddenly mattered a lot. I should add that we depended heavily on gut instincts, since predicting future writing ability based on a few paragraphs and a 15-minute chat isn’t an exact science. These gut instincts changed right up to the last second. Still, there was always the safety of knowing that whoever we hired would be good...
...against Iraq, which are pursued with particular vehemence by the U.S. and Britain, the large numbers killed in Iraq during and after the Gulf War, or the presence of U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf, but none of these, in my opinion, have the force and the gut-wrenching immediacy, the sense of dishonour surrounding the Palestinian predicament for Arab public opinion. So it is around these issues that we must look carefully and analytically to dismantle terrorist networks...
...main businesses and never overseas. "I've seen him under fire and under grace, and his instincts are all right on the button," Welch said from his vacation home on Nantucket, where he's getting in some golf before his much anticipated book, Jack: Straight from the Gut, hits stores next week. "My report card comes out in another five years, when Jeff has taken this company to a whole new level, and people are saying, 'Is that all Jack...
...reputation for integrity have endowed him with a unique moral stature. Americans?and the rest of the world?want to see him use that to great ends. From the start, his presence at Bush's side conferred an extra legitimacy on an untried President, supplied experience to temper gut instinct. Powell's rich store of respect and goodwill lent confidence to allies overseas that the essentials of policy in the world's superpower would remain stable?or if they did change, that a reassuring interlocutor would be leading the process and explaining its wisdom...