Word: guesswork
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was no doubt that Monro enjoyed the role, and on occasion used the HPC as a sounding board for some of his pet ideas. "It was great to have him," Norr says. "He took a lot of the guesswork away, and gave us his vast knowledge of administrative history and his immense good will...
Easier to Remove. The tax issue will thus hinge more than ever on the size of Viet Nam spending, and President Johnson has not told even his highest policymakers how much that may be. Left in the dark, his aides are chagrined that their decisions must involve so much guesswork. Says Federal Reserve Chairman William McChesney Martin: "If the defense supplemental is going to be, as many think, between $7 billion and $15 billion, we should take the calculated risk of a one-year tax increase rather than risk another step on the accelerator. It's easier to remove...
...physics-or by quantum mechanics, in which atoms and subatomic particles behave both like bits of matter and like light waves. Once the answer is known, scientists should be able to calculate precise chemical reaction rates and the amount of energy needed to cause ,them, taking most of the guesswork out of laboratory and industrial chemistry...
...such questions were answered satisfyingly in William Mulvihill's novel. Here they are spelled out according to the conventions of steam-heated movie melodrama, but the film still turns the guesswork into good grim fun. Competition within the group begins in earnest after they find refuge in a hillside cave. While a herd of baboons observes the vagaries of humankind, the six rapidly dwindle. The hardy pilot (Nigel Davenport) sets off to seek help. An old German (Harry Andrews) and a professorial type (Theodore Bikel) are eliminated one way or another by the fittest male, Stuart Whitman...
Although any estimate of the amount that the HSA charges for administrative expenses must be guesswork, the most informed guesses put the figure at a level far above what IATA considers acceptable. Where does the money go? If the HSA is using charter flight receipts to subsidized unprofitable agencies, it is not only violating another IATA rule, but it is abusing the monopoly position that Harvard has given...