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...scoping out passing cars. They see somebody in an old clunker and know the rider's just scraping to get by in another low-wage gig. They spot somebody in one of those jazzed-up numbers, a sport-ute or a low-riding classic, and it's a good hunch the occupant is a roller in the drug game. In the end, of course, it doesn't really matter much how passersby earn their keep. So long as they slow down a bit when they cruise Parnell and watch out for all the kids ripping and running about...
Took their MCAT with more than just a hunch...
...episode is typical of how individuals can get burned when they rush into a stock on a hunch, rumor, hope or partial information. With EntreMed, many placed buy orders for last Monday morning "at the market," with no inkling that the market price had swelled sevenfold without a posted trade. The pros knew. They saw the backlog of buy orders that had built up over the weekend...
...blasted the wing off his plane. What is unknown is whether Blassie, then a 24-year-old Air Force Academy graduate, now rests beneath a sacred marble slab in the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery. That possibility got a boost last week as veterans detailed their hunch that, through snafus and an eagerness to anoint a Vietnam-era vet as an unknown, the Pentagon ignored evidence that could have determined if the six bones buried at Arlington are Blassie's. The two World Wars and Korea generated thousands of unknown candidates for the tomb. But by Vietnam...
Where does this Arabian Warren Buffett think of investing next? East, it seems. His investment in News Corp. is based on a hunch that Murdoch's empire can grow by leaps and bounds in Asia. Says the prince: "Liberalization of media and entertainment in China and India will have a tremendous boost on News Corp. shares." Motorola is already in China. Earlier this year, Alwaleed made a 15-nation scouting trip through Asia and placed his first direct investment, taking a piece of the Shanghai Trade Center, which will be the tallest skyscraper in the world when it is finished...