Word: hunches
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...hunch that in a two-way debate, Gore v. Bush, the winner would be the governor of Texas. That's counterintuitive: Bush is short on facts and figures, and Gore is a buffed-up schoolmarm with murder in his eye. But I would tell Bush that all he has to do is to stay nice and loose, working Gore in a rope-a-dope sort of way, mocking him lightly, and wait for one of those openings that can produce a fatal sound-bite - something along the lines of Lloyd Bentsen's line in 1988: "I knew John Kennedy...
...SIXTH SENSE Sometimes you've got a hunch--call it intuition, an educated guess--but you just can't quite be sure: Is he? Is she? Now technology is finally eliminating the guesswork. A Toronto firm called Gaydar Direct has created a simple device for gay men and women that's designed to help them identify others who share their sexual preference. Gaydar ($69) is a battery-powered, key-chain-sized device that buzzes discreetly when it comes within 20 ft. of another Gaydar. What happens next is entirely...
...hunch is that this may not be the case, in which the statistic of 34 percent choosing the correct answer is about right--a bit above the guessing level (25 percent) on a four-choice multiple-choice item...
...return flight on American Airlines, I realized I didn't know which of the four terminals or 122 gates at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport I was supposed to use. I listened to the Dallas radio station devoted to American departures, but my flight wasn't mentioned. On a hunch, I picked one terminal and got out of the cab. Bad move. In an airport that covers 20,000 acres and crosses a county line, I wasn't even close to my plane. Later, I approached two unoccupied American ticket agents at what I thought might be my gate, and stood...
...house the 21-year-old economics student shared with his pregnant wife Valbona. Watching the inferno from a distance, Kadriu was confident Valbona had escaped but was unsure where she had fled. He set off on foot for the village of Zaza, a few miles away, on a hunch she would be there with her two brothers. She wasn't, but a large number of Serb militiamen were. Thugs in balaclavas surrounded the village in three rings, moving inward to trap the inhabitants. Knowing they were targets, Kadriu and a few other men tried to escape. They managed to pass...