Word: guess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...took the dean's office job in 1971. He is a very private man and won't say why he switched jobs, but a safe guess is that he grew weary of the constant demonstrations at the OGCP to protest corporate recruiters that took place during his tenure there...
...have the spontaneity of baseball, but at least if one of the fans gets so excited that he starts throwing beer cans at a performer, he doesn't go on television afterwards to announce that you gotta believe. They haven't got wrestling down to a creed yet, I guess--maybe it wouldn't be suitable for airline billboards, anyway...
...present zoom in interest rates is about reaching its apogee. Yet how soon, how far, and even if they will fall again are subjects of sharp dispute. Predictions of where the prime rate will be by year's end range all the way from 6% to 12%. Best guess: rates will gradually trail down to about 8% by year...
Finally, it's easy to guess whether the police would have so cavalierly destroyed the SLA's hideout had its members fled to a stucco mansion like the Hearsts' in Hillsborough rather than to the modest home of a black family living on the edges of a southeast Los Angeles ghetto. That the police should have appeared "the good guys" on television was ironic, all the more so because California authorities are using SLA activities as an excuse for rounding up dozens of Bay area radicals on unverified charges...
...author start writing fiction? "I guess because it can do what I used to think philosophy ought to do-shake people up. Get them to question basic assumptions about reality." Or, as Richard warns in another connection, "You couldn't be sure. In the meantime, it was best to take nothing for granted...