Word: hunched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same desire to hunch the future led to the debacle of the pollsters at election time. In their own defense, pollsters have just about persuaded everyone that there was a dramatic change in voter opinion in the last week before the balloting. Even if this is true, however, of what use to anyone were the pollsters' "too close to call" findings just a week before an electoral landslide...
Still, reader curiosity about the future may be insatiable: How else explain the popularity of astrology columns? Probably the most ambitious and serious attempt to hunch the future was the Carnegie Corporation-financed Commission on the Year 2000, a gathering of distinguished scholars directed by Harvard Sociologist Daniel Bell. It met in the '60s but petered out by 1972. "It makes no sense to predict the future," says Bell. "There are too many contingencies. What you can do is identify relevant frameworks, and identify problems-but you don't know what will be done about them, which...
...Reagan group is pretty receptive," Walske said. "I've got a hunch that everybody in town who's a nuclear buff will be throwing names...
...just a hunch, but Eliot may develop into a decent squad. If so, the defense must do it all, and coach Rich Iorio has confidence, saying, "no team will score more than six points on us this year." Wait...
...hunch is that Borg will fall this time around, probably to former-wunderkind now-daddy Jimmy Connors. In defeat, we might catch a welcome glimpse of emotion from Borg, who has too quickly surrendered his youth to a middle-aged staidness...