Word: guessing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...happy about the goals," Landau said. "I guess scoring goals...
...long will the board have to keep watching? That is anyone's guess. Though Tisch says, "I hope I'm connected with CBS for the rest of my life," he insists he will stay in the chief executive post only during a "brief transition period." Unless, of course, he discovers that he enjoys being a public figure in the limelight more than he ever thought he would...
...Anonymous, a self-help group modeled on Alcoholics Anonymous, had only four members in Dade County, which encompasses Miami, in 1979; today up to 80 people meet nightly in each of 44 groups throughout the county. Private hospital programs have grown so fast in the 1980s that some experts guess they have become a $3 billion-to-$4 billion-a-year business. But their cost, often $300 to $500 per bed per day, puts them beyond the reach of the innumerable addicts who do not have employers or insurance companies willing to pay. Clinics and residential programs that depend...
...past 30 days) has remained constant since 1979, at about 4.3 million. "Drugs come and go," says Donald Ian Mcdonald of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration, "and cocaine has seen its period of social acceptability and of harmlessness put behind us now. I'd guess we'll see a relative improvement in the number of young people willing to try cocaine. Certainly the yuppie who has got his head screwed on halfway straight is not going to put that stuff in his nose, as he might have been tempted to do by a well-meaning user friend...
...Administration became convinced that despite Chinese assertions to the contrary, pregnant women were still being coerced into having abortions. Says Sharon Camp, vice president of the Population Crisis Committee, an international family-planning group: "I would guess what may still be going on is a woman who is pregnant with her second child has ten people come over to her house every night and talk to her until she has an abortion. But in the Chinese mind, that's not coercion. That's persuasion...