Word: guesswork
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon Adviser Alan Greenspan adds that he expects the rate to range between 41% to 51% for several years. The Government's traditional "full employment" target is 4%; the irreducible jobless rate, composed of people moving between jobs and those only marginally employable, is a matter of guesswork. The mid-point of the experts' guesses is a shade more than...
...when-could this extraordinary event have occurred? Using both hard information and informed guesswork, Perrin and his associates evolved an imaginative but logical hypothesis. The scientists knew that the concentration of U-235 found in contemporary uranium deposits is too low to sustain a chain reaction. But they were also aware that radioactive U-235 decays at a known rate, and that 1.7 billion years ago-the approximate age of the Oklo deposit -U-235 made up 3% of raw uranium deposits. This is roughly the same concentration that is created in artificially enriched uranium fuels and thus is enough...
...authors of the church-as-Fort Knox school, the favorite target, naturally enough, is the Roman Catholic Church and its prosperous American branch. Five years ago, Business Journalist James Gollin (Pay Now, Die Later), a nonpracticing Jew, decided it was time to stop the guesswork and to start investigating the secret church accounts. He distills his results in Worldly Goods (Random House; $10), a fascinating book and the first reliable report on American Catholic wealth...
...trouble is that penology (from the Latin poena, meaning penalty) is still an infant art given to fads and guesswork, like the 1920s reformers who yanked tens of thousands of teeth from hapless inmates on the theory that bad teeth induced criminality. Even now, penology has not begun to exploit the findings of behavioral scientists who believe that criminal behavior is learned, and can be unlearned with the proper scientific methods...
...powerful Democrat, now decide to sit in Richard Nixon's Cabinet-unless there was more in it for him than met the eye? There was speculation that the President is positioning Connally as a possible replacement for Spiro Agnew in 1972. So far, that is nothing more than guesswork. Besides, such a plot would require a party switch by Connally, and Texans generally prefer to fight rather than switch. It would cost Connally dearly back home. "I did not seek this job," Connally told friends. "It's just hard to say no when you're asked...