Word: guess
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...position since negotiations began last March, and a federal mediator last week became so discouraged at the lack of progress that he suspended talks indefinitely. Few readers are willing to wager how long the dispute will last, though the City News is offering a $1,000 prize for the guess that proves most accurate. The three struck dailies are losing about $1.6 million a day in advertising and circulation revenues these slow summer weeks. One popular theory is that the papers may soften their demands after Labor Day, the start of the annual back-to-school advertising binge...
With the Cardinals still behind locked doors, Vaticanologists could only guess at how a long shot like Luciani had been thrust so suddenly into the most power ful position in Christendom, the leadership of the world's 700 million Roman Catholics. When Paul died at his summer villa in Castel Gandolfo three weeks ago, there seemed to be a front rank of about half a dozen contending Cardinals, a second echelon of another six or so, and a dozen or more dark horses. Not until about a week before the conclave convened did the Patriarch of Venice begin to emerge...
...Puritan Ethic lacks signs indicating the names of major streets,but has them for side streets, presumably working on the assumption that if you don;t know the name of the street you're on, you don't deserve to. Members of the elect know; everyone else has to guess. Thank you, John Calvin...
...former New York County D.A., the focus of plea bargaining should not be on "spinning the revolving doors of the courthouse." It should be on "the defendant's rehabilitation or the public's protection." Says Chicago Law School Professor Franklin Zimring: "Because of plea bargaining, I guess we can say, 'Gee, the trains run on time.' But do we like where they're going...
...course, Christina's in a state. The other day she disappeared and ended up in England for a day, and then flew back to Athens again. Where she'll be tomorrow is anybody's guess. So my problem is, what should she do? Go back to Sergei and his mother and settle down in Moscow and wash his dirty socks? We're also worried that he even might be a Russian spy or something. It would be different, of course, if he were a James Bond or somebody of that ilk, but he doesn...