Word: guess
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...frame draped across a wing chair, McGuane exudes the tempered confidence of hard-won experience. While many of his erstwhile drinking partners have fallen by the wayside, he has managed not only to survive but to thrive in his role of gentleman rancher and Marlboro Man of letters. "I guess I'm kind of like lip cancer," he says with a wry smile. "I just won't go away...
...heir apparent, Hedley Donovan still professes uncertainty as to what virtues the Time Inc. founder saw in deciding he would become (as he did from 1964 to 1979) the company's editor in chief. But readers of Donovan's urbane, frequently self-chiding memoir will be able to guess. He blended a heartland bourgeois regard for American values with a worldly disdain for puffery. He took pride in being able to change his mind -- notably, on Viet Nam and Richard Nixon. In chronicling his life from the rectitude of a Minnesota boyhood to a Rhodes scholarship in Hitler- threatened Europe...
...didn't wrestle well at all," Biland said. "All three of my matches were really sloppy. I guess I was really tired...
...come after some person of authority actually decides how the new system will work, after the administration plays with the results, after we see how the choice works and after the administration decides to change its mind--my fellow classmates and I are doomed to discuss our options. My guess is that the preliminary decisions should be out before finals, and the revised ones sometime over the summer...
...pick three `Prime' houses, or maybe three really bad houses if we have to pick our three non-choices. If we get a low lottery number, we should pick good houses if it's non-non-choice and three bad ones for regular part-partial-fractional-randomization. I guess the only way to be definite is to get a middle number and pick a low-advantage/non-offensive house...