Word: hunches
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Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff's "gut feeling" that an al-Qaeda attack in the U.S. may be imminent is more than just a hunch - it echoes the prevailing sentiment among intelligence and counterterrorism officials in Europe...
...great acting: attend to the gestural brilliance in Ratatouille: Remy the rat's slight hunch of the shoulders and secret smile as he acknowledges that, yes, he has the makings of a great chef; or the face of the severe food critic Anton Ego as he takes a forkful of Remy's signature dish, and his sourness disappears, a beatific smile replaces the sneer, and Ego is transported back 40 years to the sublime memory of his mother's kitchen. "Yes, it's a super-cartoony design on his face," Director Brad Bird told TIME's Rebecca Winters Keegan...
...York asked Parthenon to focus on students who were two or more years behind their peers in accumulating credits toward graduation. "We had a hunch that these overage, undercredited kids were the bulk of the dropouts," says Leah Hamilton, executive director of the city's Office of Multiple Pathways to Graduation. That turned out to be more correct than anyone had imagined: 93% of dropouts had a history of being overage and undercredited. In fact, once students fell into this category, they had just a 19% chance of finishing high school or getting a graduate equivalency diploma...
...about and pursuing our desires. It's the neurological equivalent of putting on a DVD for the kids so the main players in the house can get some shut-eye. "Dreams replace the real actions that are instigated by our motivational impulses while we're awake," Solms says. His hunch is that the non-dreamers in his study will wake up more often during the night than the dreamers, especially during REM sleep: "The dream," he says, "is what keeps you asleep...
...agriculture subsidies - because most of its nations refused to back his Iraq invasion. Since then, much of the region has turned leftward and anti-U.S. Bush was reminded about this at each stop of his five-nation tour - and each time his initial reaction was to hunch his shoulders, flash that exasperated look and angrily deny...