Word: instinctive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dominated for three quarters," said attacker Martin Garcia, who scored one goal. "Through the first three quarters we played really well. Things just fell apart in the fourth period. It was no individual player. We let off a little. We lacked killer instinct. They scored a couple of key goals and we just lost our momentum...
...Captain Paul Garavente agreed with Garcia, saying "We have to develop the killer instinct. This week in practice we'll probably be working on our intensity, playing for 60 minutes...
Though neither is highly educated, in the study of their games they were prodigies as children, and are intellectuals now. By some similar force of instinct and understanding--maybe Chess Grand Master Bobby Fischer would know about this--they see and play the game several moves ahead of the moment, comprehending not only where everything is but also where everything will be. Shown a photograph of a nondescript instant on the ice, Gretzky can replace the unpictured performers here and there about the periphery and usually recall what became of them the next second. Glancing at the basketball photo...
...University of Minnesota dropout, Jacobs started working full time in 1959 for his father, a Russian immigrant, who ran a gunnysack business. In the mid-'60s the company flourished, selling sandbags used to dam floods along the Mississippi. Jacobs early showed a trader's instinct, buying merchandise at business liquidation sales and reselling it. At 18, he got 300 pairs of skis at a U.S. Customs auction for $13 a pair, then sold them right outside the auction hall for three times as much...
...drives himself to work from his home in the stylish Minneapolis suburb of Wayzata in a Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow II. He makes no claims to being a great long-range corporate planner, even to the point of refusing to keep an appointment calendar. Jacobs is a person of instinct and action. Says he: "You can't predict what I'm going to do next because there is no track, no character to it. Our big asset is our flexibility, being able to move on a moment's notice...