Word: instinctiveness
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...subject in the style of Harvard's best-known faculty member. When stating his case, with regard to the current political climate or Vermont wildlife or psychiatric advice, Galbraith takes what he know to be his audience's assumptions and uses them to draw converts to his cause. This instinct, a sort of intellectual pass key, turns this economist into a writer...
...process is not always orderly, nor so thoughlful as it should be. But creative government rarely is. Events move too fast. Decisions must often be made as much on instinct as on precise information, lest the time for action pass. After the big budgel-resolution win, plans to cul Social Security were rushed to the White House. They were presented one morning lo Reagan, almost cold. At first he was disbelieving, then irritated. "Can I have twelve hours to decide?" he asked grumpily. Bul it took less time than that for Reagan to make his decision and seek Ihe cuts...
...drawings in this striking tome. Terres wrote all the entries himself, a labor of 21 years, balancing the scientific and the popular, to please novice and expert alike. He updates ornithological subjects like mating. Some findings: scientists now call the hummingbird's brief passion "promiscuous"; birds fly by instinct, not parental instruction; a robin's natural life span can be as long as 11½ years, but its life expectancy, because of power lines and pesticides, is little more than one year...
Then she got very smart, very fast. Her instinct for competitive public relations, as shrewd and sure as her court sense, told her that you only win if you control the game. She knew that the story was shaking loose, and that more denials would only put reporters into a feeding frenzy. She knew that if Barnett had to prove the sapphic connection in court, she could organize a parade of witnesses who would keep the tabloids happy for weeks. So King decided that she herself must manage the stagecraft of her public humiliation. Her parents on one side...
...Wechsler-Bellevue Intelligence Scale, the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children and the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale; in New York City. A critic of conventional IQ tests that measure only reasoning and logic, Wechsler argued that intelligence is actually made up of a variety of factors, including temperament, impulse and instinct...