Word: instinctiveness
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...feel things are beginning to move. I have a gut instinct about it," says Shizue Tanaka, whose family runs Tanakatei, an upscale restaurant in Tokyo's posh Akasaka area. Tanaka's sentiments are now shared by most influential businessmen: a quarterly survey by the Bank of Japan, which tracks the mood in boardrooms, recently reported the first upturn in business optimism in five years. "The possibility is strong that the economy has moved one step toward recovery," says Bank of Japan governor Yasushi Mieno. "But we must carefully watch the sustainability and tempo of the upturn...
...beginning to bother the players, who think the culprit is team vice president Larry Himes, not Trebelhorn. "We hold so many meetings that by the time we get on the field, no one knows what to think anymore," says Chicago third baseman Steve Buechele. "This game is played by instinct, not by radar guns and charts and computers and all that other crap they throw...
...days later, on Aug. 8, 1974, Nixon made his last televised statement % from the White House: "I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every instinct in my body. But as President I must put the interests of America first . . . Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow." There remained then only a series of farewells. He spoke once again of winning and losing. "We think that when we suffer a defeat, that all is ended. Not true. It is only a beginning, always...
...issues, the White House frequently displays a don't-bother-me attitude toward foreign affairs. Clinton was not even aware that the U.N. had decided to issue what amounted to a warrant for Aidid's arrest, for example. And the President, says a Washington official, "doesn't have any instinct about what plays abroad." Relations between the U.S. and India are normally prickly, but there was no need to irritate them further by letting more than a year go by without sending a U.S. ambassador to New Delhi (even now the expected choice, Under Secretary of Defense Frank Wisner...
...very devoted," says team captain Suzanne M. Foley '94. "She wants to win, she wants to score. She's very competitive, she's got dirve and instinct...