Word: instinctive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...following day Dole conferred with Reed in his Senate office and without preamble said he was going to resign. From the majority leadership? Reed asked. No, the whole shooting match, Dole replied. Reed recognized the "transformational" power of such a move and encouraged Dole to go with his own instinct. As a candidate unencumbered by office, he could follow his own version of triangulation, distancing himself from Newt and attacking Beltway Bill...
...well as their party. But as Armey proved last week, when he rallied conservative Republicans behind his opposition to the minimum wage, the Texan sees more virtue in taking a stand than in compromising. The leader's job normally goes to someone with patience, flexible principles and an instinct for horse trading. In other words, it's not an obvious assignment for Armey, an ideological purist with a reputation for razor-edged one-liners who says he would much rather go bass fishing than spend another hour negotiating with President Clinton. On a recent visit to his district, Armey hopped...
Throughout the early '90s, the band logged a couple of thousand miles a week and earned only $6,000 to $10,000 apiece annually, but from the start the supposedly carefree group displayed a nascent business sense and an instinct for organization. "Even when doing cover songs for frat parties they used their earnings wisely," says Dick Hodgin, the band's first manager. (Rusty Harmon took over when Hodgin decided he didn't have the time to focus on the band.) "They put money away instead of doing what most bands do--split it and spend it." Today the band...
DUNBLANE, SCOTLAND, HAS OVERFLOWED with tributes to its 16 murdered children [WORLD, March 25]. But let us also memorialize teacher Gwenne Mayor. In the face of dark and bloody chaos, she reached beyond duty and instinct into the best of her human self and staked her life to try to defend other people's children. That she was slain in this attempt, along with so many of her charges, in no way diminishes the fact that in the long run it is love like hers that will triumph. ANTHONY BUCKLAND North Vancouver, British Columbia...
PRIMAL FEAR. OR, ALTERNATIVELY, Fatal Fear, Primal Attraction, Indecent Instinct, even--why not?--Basic Exposure. Who cares, finally? These interchangeable titles all promise the same thing: the black glamour of privileged people abandoning common, repressive sense for a mad moment, thus putting their nice clothes in serious danger of becoming mussed, if not downright bloodsplattered...