Word: guess
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wallerstein readily concedes that his measurement, taken while climbing K-2, may have been inaccurate. "Mine was done with a secondhand receiver, while theirs was made with first-rate equipment," he says. "I guess it proves that in this business there's no place for amateurs...
...anyone's guess whether the small degree of stability so painfully achieved on Friday -- volume dwindled as the Dow average stood almost still -- will hold even for days or hours. Alan Meltzer, professor of political economy at Pittsburgh's Carnegie-Mellon University, thinks the "markets will remain volatile because there are still too many unanswered questions...
...personal note to Reagan that might put the summit back on track. When asked if he saw any need for another meeting with the Soviet Foreign Minister, Shultz replied, "I don't think we have anything in particular to meet about." Then he added, "The main thing, I guess, is to keep checking with the mailman to see what he brings...
Anything less exciting might send many fire fighters packing. "A fire is quick and dirty," explains Larry Humphrey, 40, a natural-resource specialist from Safford, Ariz., who is in charge of 250 fire fighters. "I guess I don't have the patience for any other job." A 15-year veteran of forest fires, Humphrey has had only one day off in a month, but says he would keep on working for free. As he talks, nearby flames shoot several hundred feet up a Douglas fir in a matter of seconds. The tremendous roar is followed by the thunder...
...with the responsibility for authorizing any retaliation was shouldering a more personal but no less worrisome burden as his wife entered Bethesda Naval Hospital for a biopsy and then a modified radical mastectomy. Nancy Reagan's plucky words on initially hearing of the cancer threat -- "I guess it's my turn" -- only underscored the randomness of life's lottery...