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...inside the classroom in Brentwood, Long Island, about 90 muggy degrees. Nearly 300 men and women, clad in shorts, T shirts, jogging shoes and jeans -- a few with service revolvers in ankle holsters -- hunch against tables piled with books. Some affect a jaunty air, but most wear the look of the condemned. These are New York City police officers battling through a seven-hour cram session that covers everything from the penal code to traffic regulations. They are preparing for exams to determine who will be promoted and who will...
...cooled house, and his big White tractor has an air- conditioned cab. The shelter belts of Chinese elms and Russian olive trees that he planted between fields have endured, and retard the dust and wind over the 1,200 acres he and his son farm. Malard's hunch is that the improved farming practices, the big dams and reservoirs on the main stem of the Missouri, farm ponds and all the other modern techniques will prevent the terrible devastation and suffering of the 1930s...
...part, then there's nothing. I'll be doing game shows. I'll be saying ((and here he imitates Sajak)), 'Show me the vowels!' I'll be playing third hunchback in the musical of Notre Dame. ((Sings in operetta style:)) 'Look out, he's going,/ He's got a hunch...
...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...