Word: guesswork
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they were even moved around in the editing-and that's what made the movie adaptable to MTV." Indeed, the theme from Flashdance, fitted out with appropriate clips from the movie, was an MTV smash. The Flashdance phenomenon was a confluence of good commercial instincts and some savvy guesswork, and now that Hollywood has found a new formula, indeed helped create one, it will...
...have anxiously awaited the appearance of a home computer by the industry's giant (1982 sales: $34.4 billion). IBM repeatedly denied that the product even existed, but newspapers and trade journals were filled with speculation about the new machine and its expected announcement date. Late last week the guesswork grew frenzied. After the Boston Globe published what it called a photograph of the home computer, Wall Street began hearing rumors that an angered IBM would delay the new model until early next year. But industry watchers quickly dismissed the reports as "disinformation" put out by the company to heighten...
...with the firm, fall in love? The answer is interesting enough, but so too is who is asking the question: the September/October issue of the Harvard Business Review, the premier American journal of management. Sandwiched between an article titled "Product Defects and Productivity" and one on "Cutting Down the Guesswork in R & D" is a piece on how to handle love and sex in the executive suite...
...sweepstakes, yes, that's right, sweepstakes. This isn't just an average tournament. The 48-team draw (down to 44 teams as of today) is packed with no-names, little-knowns, dark horses, over-rated favorites (no names, please), etc., and there are plenty of betting pools to stimulate guesswork. In a usually unpredictable tournament, this year's sweepstakes figure to witness more surprises than normal...
Diagnosis, of course, is far from an exact science. Respected specialists will examine the same set of symptoms and arrive at different conclusions. Most medical decisions are educated guesswork; nevertheless, the computers are already functioning well. A report in the Journal of the American Medical Association states that one SUMEX program performed at a level comparable to that of five medical experts at Stanford. William Baker, NIH administrator for the SUMEX project, says that a computer system at the University of Pittsburgh called CADUCEUS is so sophisticated that it "would be a board-certified internist if it were human." Pittsburgh...