Word: guesswork
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...waste of money in any sense, but it is a disorderly way of budgeting it," says Robert E. Kaufmann '62, associate dean of the Faculty for finance and administration, who oversees budget-making every year. There's more guesswork in the preparation of the Faculty budget than you might expect if you judged from the neat tables and rows of figures that emerge at year...
...Providence post office. The thick letters offer admission to Brown, a highly selective Ivy League university. The thin letters say no or relegate applicants to the limbo of the waiting list. Those who go through thick and thin are participating in a process that mixes careful weighing, educated guesswork and plain horse trading. TIME's Evan Thomas sat in on the admissions committee. His report...
PENN at LAFAYETTE--No guesswork here. The Quakers will munch on the Leopards as if they were so many fried shrimp. Penn 35, Lafayette...
What has reduced last season's clockwork to guesswork...
Because instant and credible information has to be given, it becomes necessary to resort to guesswork, rumors and suppositions to fill in the voids, and none of them will ever be rectified, they will stay on in the readers' memory. How many hasty, immature, superficial and misleading judgments are expressed every day, confusing readers, without any verification. The press can both simulate public opinion and miseducate it. Thus we may see terrorists heroized, or secret matters. pertaining to one's nation's defense, publicly revealed, or we may witness shameless intrusion on the privacy of well-known people under...