Word: hunches
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...years old and my parents went to bed two hours ago. I hunch over my dimly lit desk and squint as I pull tiny gun turrets from the sprues of a plastic-parts tree. My room smells of Testor's model glue. I will eventually get so delirious from inhaling the fumes and struggling to assemble this 1/700-scale model of the aircraft carrier Akagi that I will pass out at my desk...
...point, right? If Duke could lose to UConn in 1999 despite being 15 point favorites, no sane person can predict with little more than a hunch who will be dancing on the Hubert Humphrey Metrodome court three Monday nights from...
...question. I did little over the summer. (I bought a used book or two that looked like it might be relevant, and told my parents to pay for it "for the thesis.") Some people do oodles of research and come back at the early December stage, but my hunch is they loaf the semester away and reach December 1 no further ahead than the rest. So, figure out if an internship or time in an archive will best serve your thesis--and your mental well-being--and act accordingly...
When Evelyn Hannon decided at age 57 that she wanted to create an online travel guide, she had no market research and didn't know the difference between e-mail and a website. What Hannon had was a hunch: beyond the walls of her Toronto high-rise, she sensed a world of female wannabe adventurers eager for women's real-life travel information. "If you need to find a good doctor or a safe hotel, you ask the women," she says. "I wanted to begin a network around the world that would help each other to travel...
...being robbed in invasions targeting the pills. These patients are often tracked down by relatives who know what is inside their medicine chests or by their small-town neighbors who hear small-town talk about their prescriptions. Thieves are even accosting customers in drugstore parking lots, on a hunch that they might be carrying the sought-after drug, say Bangor authorities. OxyContin rings get prescriptions from sloppy or questionable doctors and use the usual means of forging them, either by photocopying the form or by using a pen to change a prescription for 10 tablets, for example...