Word: guesswork
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Guesswork...
...much guesswork was needed, however, as the freshman boat left its opposition to slash it out for seconds en route to a three-quarter-length open water win in the time...
Administration-watching is a tricky business, because it relies so much on piecemeal information and guesswork and because the administration speaks its mind on important issues to alumni, not students. But the administration seems to be in a retrenching period, brought on by financial woes and slipping reputation, that has resulted in a subtle shift in its line. The important thing to remind alumni now is that Harvard needs their money for vitally important things, not just frills. The problem with the argument that surfaced in last month's alumni meeting is that it implies that equality is a mere...
...Hitler's suicide, but also that "each defeat will shake his confidence and ... he will probably try to compensate for his vulnerability by stressing his brutality." In fact, Hitler began ordering mass slaughters of the Jews as his military position crumbled. But even Langer calls psychiatric profiles "90% guesswork...
...ouster, until in February the Council of Deans appointed an eight-member committed to oversee the program. The committee met with various groups interested in the program, including the poor whites and Freedberg. This year there will be ten poor whites in the program--if the admissions committee's guesswork as to the race of applicants is correct--and the med school group seems to have calmed down. Now a Chicano group is mad at the program and has written a letter of complaint to President Bok calling, once again, for Crooks's firing...