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Around the fringe of the dusty, sprawling Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez (pop. 625,000) rise row after row of corrugated-steel and beige brick structures bearing the logos of RCA, General Electric and GTE. Inside a Honeywell building, hundreds of women wearing red smocks hunch over an assembly line as they put together tiny electronic devices. Ten million parts a month are turned out here and then trucked across the border to U.S. plants, which ship them off to be used in Apple computers, Xerox copiers and instrument panels for the space shuttle...
...graduated near the top of his class in 1941, was calculated to give him the opportunity to exercise his talents as a liberal activists. "I decided to practice law in a large representative city such as Cleveland," Calkins wrote in his class's 25th reunion report, "on the hunch that in this way I could find effective and independent involvement with whatever turned out to be the action and passion of our time...
Possessing neither the money nor the clout to perform these jobs, Mickey does the best he can, which is not terribly good. Matters quickly get out of hand. Mickey tries to raise money by betting on an inspired hunch at the racetrack, and loses. The lupine director of the local funeral home, displeased when Mickey asks for credit, tosses Leon's body into a side alley...
...true or not, my hunch is that the President will tell the nation he will be retiring to his California ranch next January, thereby sealing in one of the few unquestionably successful presidencies in recent years...
...noted, found. "For four years, a student's locker is his home away from home." The administrators in New Jersey may have had a good instinct as their illegally seized evidence shows, but students still retain their rights. Again, the court. "He [the administrator] had, at best, a good hunch. No doubt hunches would unearth more evidence of crime on the persons of students or citizens as a whole. But more is needed to sustain a search." In effect, searching a student's locker is the equivalent of searching his parents' home...