Word: intuitionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Feelings cannot be captured in a box score, intuition cannot be put in a data bank, whim cannot be predicted. The decision-making process is everyman's secret ritual, forever hidden from cameras, tape recorders and pollsters' printouts. Indeed, it is often obscure even to the decision maker...
Unlike other venture capitalists. Rock has few private investors as clients and hence is under little outside pressure. Rock invests slices of his own fortune and the money of a few close friends, limiting himself to three or four deals a year. He makes sure that the companies he finances...
No challenger had ever won more than two races, but that is merely a statistic. What was on display in Newport was nobility. The Australians showed technological brilliance, consummate sailing skill, luck, intuition, nerve, courage, stamina and fanatic determination to win. It also took millions of dollars on both sides...
Duvall's choice of actors is an alchemy of pragmatism and intuition. "Producing," she says, "is just chemistry plus some financing." Her form of creative control is to give everyone virtual free rein. An upcoming production of The Beauty and the Beast, for example, has been filmed by Director...
There is something else to consider: America may no longer be so enthralled by the freshness and energy of youth. There is a detectable distrust of brilliance not tempered or cooled by experience. The qualities that many Americans feel are most needed in a President today-historical perspective, intuition, patience...