Word: instinctive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ultimately be redeemed by the kind of people it has always attracted. The dilemma, in part, is how to preserve the old atmosphere of entrepreneurial daring and adventure, while spending the money needed to educate the young for a new world in a new century. The Texan's instinct prefers action to thought, which may explain why the state ranks 46th in the nation in Scholastic Aptitude Test scores...
...middle-class instinct (subliminal, unshakable) to "make something of yourself" and contribute to society, has led us down the Establishment road --what we used to call selling out. We like to think that our careers give us more effective ways to act on our values than we had as students. We all try to do good and do well at the same time...
...radiation leak soon enough, had he thought through the consequences of trying to keep the catastrophe a secret and had he openly invited foreign scientists and technicians to help put out the fire, Gorbachev might have scored a brilliant diplomatic success. But by acquiescing to the Soviet instinct for glum silence, he showed anew that he remains very much a creature of the stolid system that brought him to power...
Since then there has been a marked change in Ronald Reagan's attitude. His gut instinct has always been to put as much pressure on the Soviet Union as possible, and in the past few months his confidence has grown that he can do this without incurring any major risk. According to the prevailing view among Reagan's advisers, the Soviets have the most to lose if they back out of the upcoming summit, so the U.S. has nothing to lose by acting assertive...
...best actor in Hollywood." White Heat contains a typical bit of Cagney , business, less a trick than a nuance. He had the killer Cody Jarrett sit, for just a second, in his mother's lap. It was a gesture worth pages of exposition, mined from the same instinct that made Cagney what he would never admit he was: a consummate actor...