Word: instinctiveness
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...just because trying to reach agreement on the $56.4 billion spending plan has required both houses of the legislature to work far into the night no fewer than a dozen times. Closing a $14.3 billion deficit -- the largest state shortfall in U.S. history -- means violating the politician's basic instinct to please voters by cutting taxes and handing out goodies...
When Naftuli Ringel arrived in the U.S. in 1907, the best available job was shohet -- ritual slaughterer. But the immigrant was too sensitive for throat cutting, and he chose to become a peddler. Assimilation works wonders in America; 84 years later, his grandson has developed an unerring instinct for the jugular vein...
...colt in rural Vermont, if it smells a fresh buffalo robe (the colt having no knowledge or experience of buffalo, which lived on the plains) will "start, snort, and with bursting eyes paw the ground in phrenzies of affright. Here thou beholdest even in a dumb brute the instinct of the knowledge of the demonism of the world...
...female students give classmates the benefit of the doubt. College officials have led the effort to raise consciousness about the problem through rape-awareness weeks, video series, pamphlets, training manuals and posters: DATE RAPE IS VIOLENCE, NOT A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION. But when a really nasty incident occurs, the instinct too often is to handle it quietly and try to make it go away...
...Queer Nation members replied that they are tired of Hollywood's "censorship" of their lives. Said one gay leader: "Hollywood has once again decided to sacrifice the lives of gay men and lesbians in order to make money." A previously scheduled fund-raising lunch with Douglas on the Basic Instinct set for an AIDS organization is not expected to quell the controversy...