Word: guess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...protection." Throughout the U.S., Skylab "survival kits," usually including plastic helmets and targets, were selling well. There were also numerous office lotteries based on when or where Skylab would fall. At the White House, Presidential Press Secretary Jody Powell was said to have $2 riding on his best impact guess: the Arabian...
...present, the IWC takes a rough guess at the numbers of a species and, using little more than simple arithmetic, decides how many whales can be killed without endangering the population's survival. But many scientists argue that the calculations should take other factors into account. Some of these marine mammals are believed to be monogamous, and the slaughter of one whale may break up a family unit, with a drastic effect on breeding. Since certain species have the largest brains of any creatures, they may be intelligent enough to fear such sounds as ships' propellers, even...
...that they cannot in the long run prosper by gouging their customers, the OPEC ministers in effect have already decided to pile another price increase on top of the 35% rise that they have put into effect since December. The only question is how large it will be. Prevailing guess: the "marker" price will go up to $20 per bbl., from $14.54 now, bringing the total increase since December, when the price was $12.70, to about 50%. Still unsettled is the question of whether that will be a unified charge or merely a base to which individual OPEC members will...
...regard the European thing as a difference of opinion," said Bond. "People look at the same evidence and come to different conclusions. I have tried not to be critical of them. But I guess there are still open questions in my own mind that have not been resolved...
...conductor of the Collegiate Chorale, a 160-voice amateur chorus. And he is planning another Basically Bach festival for next year. All of this has forced him to forgo his weekly summer baseball games and subside to the status of a merely passionate fan. His team? "The Yankees-I guess because they're winners." Coming from a man with Westenburg's recent record, that figures...