Word: hunched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...care; today medical insurance covers the tab for 70% of American workers in companies with more than 100 employees. In the early 1970s, the Kemper Group of Long Grove, Ill., was the first national insurance company to include coverage for alcoholism in all its group policies. The firm's hunch: the bill for helping an alcoholic quit today would be cheaper than nursing him through afflictions like cirrhosis of the liver and strokes later in life. The logic of acting sooner rather than later has since spread throughout corporate America. Some 10,000 firms and public agencies, including...
...market plunge by making investments that rise in value when stock prices crumble -- either through options trading or a practice known as short selling. Yet another group of investors swooped aggressively into bargain-basement stock buying on Tuesday, after the Dow took its 508-point plunge, on the hunch that the market was certain to rebound. All of them proved that even on the worst of stock-trading days, there are winners as well as losers...
Time for a hunch. Barring man-made calamities, natural disasters or World War III, George Bush is apt to become the next President...
...Lebanese who has been charged with complicity in the bombings. French authorities suspect that Gordji may be a leader of an Iranian intelligence network. Police surrounded the 19th century sandstone embassy after concluding that Gordji, who is not protected by diplomatic immunity, was hiding there. Iran brazenly corroborated the hunch: Gordji served as translator at an embassy press conference called to denounce the siege...
...McIlwain's course for credit, not the course on the Soviet Union, taught by Walsh and Sweeezy. I have a strong sense that the content of that latter course, if offered today, would look like a parody of scholarship and be just a laugher. I have an equally strong hunch that what McIlwain had to say in the 1930s would still be well worth listening to in the 1980s...