Readers may also be surprised at how well every hunch and scheme works out.
Mrs Pellegrini was unaware of her husband's share of this gain until she checked her bank balance on an ATM; $45m had been deposited into their joint account.If Mr Paulson's coup was down to a (well-reasoned) hunch, the careers of the investors featured in Mr Patterson's book are based on rigorous mathematics, or at least that is what they believe.
Well, really, a hunch: Don't buy the cheapest bottle on the list, buy the second cheapest.
Waiting to test her are five last-out winners, including Lira, who has won all three of her career starts, as well as the hunch player's special Wedding Dress.
Key barriers: These include the absence of a culture of mitigated risk-taking, as well as backing hunches and reaching out beyond the obvious enterprise divisions and departments of institutions.
Lessons have been learned: the failure of the sprint quartet in Athens through a wrong selection choice led the team to look far more closely at data as well as coaching hunches.
Like a good detective, she acted on a hunch as well as evidence when she asked the child if headaches might not be code for Ed aches, a way of "telling by not telling" that the neighbor, whose name was Ed, had hurt her.
As an entrepreneur he founded web security startup SiteAdvisor and sold it to McAfee, as well as recommendation service Hunch, which was acquired by eBay.
Sponsorship even had some local flavor with equipment and prizes offered by beloved Mac shop Tekserve, as well as startups ExFM, Hunch and Boxee.
On the other hand, he said he had "at least the impression" that high gasoline prices stemmed from the Democrats' emphasis on alternative energy, a hunch that may well have been disputed with a little effort.
