Word: hunched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Republican Convention. After watching conservative speakers bash gays and Hillary Clinton in Houston, the Bakerites immediately sensed that the theme was, as an aide put it, "exclusionary, rather than inclusionary." Within hours of taking over at the White House, Baker team members requested poll data to back up their hunch. When they got them, they moved to more closely tie Bush's talk of family values to his policies. "There was just a consensus," said an official, "that we were eventually going to hurt ourselves if we weren't careful about how we handle...
Collaborating on a book enhanced the week-to-week journalism of Duffy and Goodgame. Explains Goodgame: "It forced us to work far more closely together, sharing every detail, every interview, every hunch with each other." Working so closely also pointed up the odd-couple nature of the Duffy-Goodgame relationship. Duffy likes to write early and, when circumstances permit, quit early for a gourmet dinner like take-out pizza. In contrast, Goodgame does his best writing late at night, often after downing several bowls of his homemade seafood gumbo...
...That hunch led to the special series of photos that appear in this week's issue. Initially, Bentley and Clinton agreed to a one-month trial run, but the candidate felt sufficiently comfortable with the arrangement to continue it indefinitely. "We both understood that he would have to instantly trust me," says Bentley. Campaign advisers were told to get used to the photographer's presence in meetings, and Hillary Clinton welcomed him to the family home in Little Rock. The first photos, published in late March, ended with a Clinton win in Illinois. Since then, Bentley has been privy...
Then there is the matter of basic economics. James McConkey can't scientifically prove it, but his hunch is that people who drive 20 miles to a Wal-Mart, and so contribute to the decline of their town, end up paying higher taxes, which is a premium for the merchandise they get. Eventually, the pendulum will swing, the marketplace will adjust. That is what American capitalism is all about, as Mr. Sam knew as well as any merchant of the modern...
Quayle repeated his hunch in a news conference Tuesday, but Mac McKay,Quayle's assistant press secretary, said thevice-president's prediction did not involveCuomo's Harvard speech...