Word: hunching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Canada last week has fed America's worst fears: On the eve of the millennium, an Algerian man with a trunkload of explosives eludes Canadian authorities, apparently headed for a million-person New Year's party in Seattle, and almost makes it into the U.S. if not for the hunch of a border guard. It makes for one terrifying story to the U.S., which has many terrorist enemies around the world but has stayed generally free of attack on its own soil, and it exposes a disturbing truth - America is only as secure as its borders. One problem from America...
...hunch is that the truth lies somewhere in between, but we don't know...
...those age 64 or older, $62,500. That infers abysmal yearly growth of about 5% and no additional savings over decades. Three possible explanations: today's young are saving more, pre-retirees are spendthrifts, or the elder set is shifting to conservative investments too early. My hunch is it's the latter, and that's one way to come up short...
...workers chattering inches away from them. MongoMusic's executives hold management meetings in the middle of the room. A network cable droops from the ceiling and disappears into a hole in the wall, connecting the office to a similar one next door, where eight more headphoned employees hunch over keyboards. When the door opens and a stranger walks in, everybody looks up and smiles...
...save Medicare and slash taxes ?- and yet few, including moderates in their own party, seem to believe that. And Greenspan may have hit upon the reason why: this multi-trillion-dollar surplus, which materialized in the last year as if from thin air, is still just a promise -- a hunch, even -- by a bunch of Washington politicians. And it could disappear just as quickly. "Things are happening which we call technical factors, which is another way of saying we don't have a clue, and they could just as readily go in the other direction," the chairman said...