Word: instinctiveness
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...seasoned Zeckendorf a "bee in clover." Basically, a successful real estate deal is an economic snowball operation. You find a good property, make a minimal down payment, borrow as much as possible at low interest, then sell high to finance the next deal. In addition to having an uncanny instinct for all the complex variations of this pattern, Zeckendorf had the vision to expand beyond New York into the fastest-growing areas in the country...
...Dennis has a detective's instinct for charting the President's movements that would probably keep the Secret Service awake nights if they knew. "You can tell which church he's going to go to," she confides, "because the Secret Service checks it out for about a week beforehand. So that's where I go on Sunday, and sometimes he goes and sometimes he doesn't. Last week he didn't, but he's very fair about it, I think. He said he would go to all the largest churches in San Clemente...
...Francisco Chronicle Columnist Herb Caen, pandering to some low and unworthy instinct, has concocted a game called "punny farm." Caen invited his readers to tousle the language with names for their pets and other animals...
...trades. As a broker, he is supposed to get the best price for other brokers, even if that means losing on his inventory of stock. But it would take a saintly soul to do that all the time. If the specialist has a large interest in a stock, his instinct is to keep its price up; if he is short on the stock, he may be tempted to let it go down. Many specialists have taken a licking in 1970, when selling pressures have been enormous, but they did well in other years. Six-figure incomes are the rule...
With that, Coke started to provide the workers with simple amenities -things like ice water, toilet facilities and gloves for pickers in the groves. "Our first instinct," said Austin, "was to change the physical condition in which the migrant worker found himself trapped." The second thought was that simple welfare was not enough. Last February, accordingly, Coke sent a team of behavioral scientists to Florida to plan a comprehensive program that would, in Austin's words, "face up to the basic human problems involved." The result of their study amounts to a sound approach to caring for the migrant...