Word: hunching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...true or not, my hunch is that the President will tell the nation he will be retiring to his California ranch next January, thereby sealing in one of the few unquestionably successful presidencies in recent years...
...noted, found. "For four years, a student's locker is his home away from home." The administrators in New Jersey may have had a good instinct as their illegally seized evidence shows, but students still retain their rights. Again, the court. "He [the administrator] had, at best, a good hunch. No doubt hunches would unearth more evidence of crime on the persons of students or citizens as a whole. But more is needed to sustain a search." In effect, searching a student's locker is the equivalent of searching his parents' home...
Iowa's first-in-the-nation caucuses, and New Hampshire's earliest-of-all primary give those states weight way out of proportion to the number of delegates they choose. In both places, Mondale's aides hunch over smart new computers, while Glenn's operatives scribble on yellow legal pads. This week Mondale will open six field offices throughout Iowa; no other candidate has an office outside Des Moines...
...technology. In 1923 private telephones were still largely playthings of the rich. Many rural areas had no electricity. The automobile was beginning to appear in large quantities. Radio's early enthusiasts tinkered with crystal sets in their living rooms just as today's home-computer buffs hunch over their machines...
...million commitment from the Japanese government, Fuchi and his colleagues hunch...