Word: guess
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...guess is that we'll get most of it, if not all of this back, by the end of the year," Meyer said in September...
...committed an impeachable offense (he hasn't). This was followed by three Nixon impeachment veterans who gave their "what would the Rodino committee do" take (they wouldn't impeach). Still to come: Witnesses discussing abuses of power and defining whether obstruction of justice and perjury has been committed (our guess: it hasn't). The big guns come tomorrow when Clinton tries to appeal to the swing vote, the moderate Republicans, by trotting out the former darling of the middle-of-the-road GOP, William Weld...
...violates their authenticity. We are, as a gender, as dull as we seem. Contrary to the claptrap of the men's movement, men gain power through not talking. "The strength of the genie," said poet Richard Wilbur, "comes from being in a bottle." I'm no biologist, but my guess is that the male human animal was programmed for silence. One can make us talk counter to our genetic makeup, but it is like training kangaroos to box. It's mildly entertaining but pointless...
Merrill can't be dismissed as a moneybags who made a lucky guess on the Crash. He truly deserves to be remembered for what he did during that second career of his, the one that began when he was deep into middle age. In founding Merrill Lynch--his partner and sidekick, Edmund C. ("Eddie") Lynch, was a soda-fountain-equipment salesman--Merrill created an important and enduring institution. But more than that, he started the country down an important and enduring path...
Thernstrom said he would expect the SupremeCourt to take the case. "My guess is that theywould uphold the First Circuit Court's decision inthis case," he said. "Boston civil rights groupsmay try to persuade the Boston Public Schools fromappealing this case...