Word: instinctiveness
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...Billings take off and my instinct was to follow him," Weber said. "But I settled down and realized that it would be a race for second...
...President's 41-minute televised performance, in which he outlined the idea of a New Federalism, was vintage Reagan, as flawlessly paced and as forcefully persuasive as any of his campaign speeches-which is what the address basically was. With a showman's instinct, he evoked the heroic spirit of Leonard Skutnik, who dived into the Potomac last month to rescue a drowning plane crash victim (see box), and stirring speeches to Congress by Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. Only when he touched on foreign policy did he shift about nervously, as if on unsure terrain...
...Early in Joe's second year, I privately decided he was to be our quarterback. As a rookie on a poor team, he did a fair job, is all. But his skills were obvious. He was just so active, so quick on his feet, so instinctive. The second year, we eased him in carefully, so as not to break him." Breaking Montana seemed a small danger to Assistant Coach Sam Wyche, a man who can speak of the relative gifts handed out to quarterbacks. He was a backup in the N.F.L. for nine years. "Montana made this fake against...
...basing our security on false equations of strength, outdated war experiences and unrealistic assessments of what the U.S. can and will support. In short, these critics charge, to the extent that Ronald Reagan has any grand strategy, it is a relic of wars not won. Reagan's instinct, that the U.S. must be strong, is good; his grasp of the shifting global ingredients of economic health, national will and military capability...
...appeals to this businessman-like instinct, Posner's economic argument falters upon this question of personal privacy. Suppose, for example, to make the sort of hypothetical case the author frequently finds fitting, that Mr. X is a master widget-maker who conceals the fact that he is a homosexual. He works for Mr. Y, the owner of a widget factory, who has a distinct aversion to homosexuals. X ends up out of a job, as the process of ferreting out facts about his employees leaves him with the knowledge of X's sexual preferences; and out of luck, because...