Word: hunches
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...services. Nearly 4,000 calls had been placed that summer and early fall to ask the sanitation department to pick up dead crows. The public-health team, knowing that dead birds often mean West Nile is afoot, overlaid maps of 311 calls and human cases of the virus. Their hunch was right: calls to 311 predicted where West Nile was about to hit. So now, each summer, Chicago officials closely watch 311 calls about dead birds and strategically send work crews with larvicide to kill mosquitoes before they hatch and start transmitting the virus. Chicago hasn't had a major...
...trading room at Huaxia Securities, one of mainland China's three biggest brokerage houses, is a place where Beijing residents gather to monitor the stock ticker and hunch over computer keyboards while they buy and sell shares of 1,378 listed Chinese companies. Like casinos, Huaxia supplies VIP rooms to high-stakes customers. After the central government's disclosure last week that China's surging economy registered unexpectedly rapid GDP growth of 9.5% in the fourth quarter of 2004, the VIP rooms should have been buzzing. But they were empty, while the atmosphere in the main room was morose...
...between rich and poor. And she has been aggressive about spreading that gospel, aiming "to make the stock market the subject of dinner-table conversation in the black community." At Ariel, Hobson launched the nation's first ongoing study of African-American investment behavior, calling attention to her hunch that blacks lag behind whites when it comes to investment, planning for retirement and putting money aside for college. The firm also started the Ariel Community Academy, an inner-city Chicago school that teaches elementary school students how to invest. Hobson takes her stump speech-- essentially a crash course in investment...
Kerry has twice married fantastically rich women. One time is O.K., but twice? There is something about the seeming coincidence and good fortune that rings a false note. I have a hunch that bothers more women than many would care to admit...
...brought in to clean up the mess that I'd left behind. Diane Morey Boxford, Massachusetts, U.S. Kerry has twice married fantastically rich women. One time is O.K., but twice? There is something about the seeming coincidence and good fortune that rings a false note. I have a hunch this bothers more women than many would care to admit. Richard Jacobson Marina del Rey, California, U.S. Recapping the Debates I agree with columnist Joe Klein that John Kerry won the first debate on "the appearance of strength" [Oct. 11]. I was pleased with the Senator's demeanor and his direct...