Word: instinctiveness
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Well, I'm glad--because I don't want to hang out at final clubs anymore. But a couple of weeks ago, I still went with a friend to a punching function at the Fly. I don't know why--it must have been a regressive instinct. And I did have a good time...
While many of today's touring pros are the product of golf academies and genteel collegiate teams, Norman, like Ray Floyd and Lee Trevino before him, took a tougher road. "The gambling gave me a killer instinct," he asserts. With his minuscule salary, he could not afford to lose. In one match Norman was three holes behind with four holes left to play. Several hundred dollars in the red, he pressed (essentially doubling the stakes) on the 16th and then again on the 18th. Had he lost he would have had to cough up a nonexistent $1,200; instead...
...Bush's sociable and humane instinct has a flip side: he often receives conflicting advice and he hates to disappoint friends. This can cause him to be indecisive and tentative in asserting his views, a trait that is exacerbated by his inherent cautious nature and his lack of ideological commitments...
...think it says, with the benefit of hindsight, that we should have been planning and anticipating more than we were. Part of this, obviously, is my own temperament. I am by instinct not someone who enjoys cutting up the other guy. That's not the way to get things done. It just gets in the way. I wanted to put a strong positive face on my campaign...
...first instinct is to turn to the people who share their problems: other political families. Last week in New Orleans spouses and children of elected officials gathered to swap survival tactics at a conference sponsored by the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. They heard the results of a survey of 1,000 politicians, their spouses and children on their attitudes toward campaigning, media coverage and other pressures, sponsored by an Indiana-based self-help group called Partners in Politics. "Families of public officials have to learn how to do their job well without suffering in the process," says...