Word: hunched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These trends, which the author will discuss in his second book, include a global economy, replacement of middle management by computers, and a new credibility given to "intuition, hunch, and faith...
...company, Sub-Sal of Reno, Nev., pinpointed the site in just three weeks last April, thanks to state-of-the-art devices that are making treasure hunters both more scientific and more successful. Where once these undersea detectives took a wild plunge with ancient charts and a hunch, the modern salvage team can reduce the search area to the site of a small lake, and hunt for pieces of gold no bigger than a pencil eraser...
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...