Word: guessed
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...forward analyses, however, always carries the risk of over-simplicity. This book should be primarily read as a survey—a case study offering glimpses into the lives of the authors, and not an investigation into historical trends. As such, the author would ideally leave the reader to guess at much of what was behind these trends. Instead, Mullan excels in offering rather disparate anecdotes, that fail to cohere as a whole. Those anecdotes, however, are enlightening stumbles for repetition. Had this book been one-third its length, it would have guided the reader along a delightful journey through...
...performers are not talented artists, it is also easy to assume that they are uneducated. Looking at Dr. Hugh M. Hill ’48, who sports glasses with blue-tinted lenses, a blue coat and a blue beret both accessorized with large, metallic blue butterflies, one would never guess that the sash across his chest that reads “Brother Blue: Storyteller” could also list a number of his academic accomplishments. Brother Blue began his street performing career as a Harvard undergraduate in the 1940s, telling stories in the Square. He has the credentials...
...reality, to run the test, you have to guess not just which borrowers will stop paying but also when. Some losses will be covered by profits elsewhere. So the firm's bottom line must be estimated. The variables leave plenty of room for the government to make some banks look better or worse, depending on the assumptions it makes. Not so cut and dried. (Read "25 People to Blame for the Financial Crisis...
...results this year, as projected by Wall Street analysts. Besides the hit that banks will take for soured loans, the firms also have losses in their investment accounts. But since markets go up as well as down, we stuck to the actual cost of their lending foibles rather than guess where the market for debt is headed next...
...duet with Lucinda Williams. That's a pretty big change. I stay pretty focused on the act of writing and recording. I still go through the same process, it has not changed. At all. The influences are growing because I'm meeting more people, I guess. And I spend more time talking to journalists...