Word: guesswork
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...true experts on what could happen in a nuclear war, for the simple and merciful reason that mankind has had practically no experience from which to make judgments and predictions with any certitude. In the final analysis, answering some of the most elementary questions is largely a matter of guesswork, intuition and ideological?almost theological?conviction. Even what might at first blush seem to be matters of objective fact, established by empirical evidence, turn out to be elusive...
...have challenged the United States to show proof, but they haven't done so," Regalado said in an interview following his appearance at an off-the-record Institute of Politics study group Monday. He added such accusations make commenting on U.S.-Cuba policy "guesswork...
...youngest computer con men ever nabbed, had obtained the Telenet phone number, coupled their school terminals to the line, and probably by nothing more than trial and error punched out the right combinations-in this case only five letters and numbers-to link up with the computers. More shrewd guesswork got them the "password" to log onto and operate the machines...
However plausible the script by Next magazine's experts, Daniel Bell might point out that the unknowable ingredient remains political will. Experts they may be, but it is still only guesswork...
...guilt-racked creator, a man, notes Garfield, "who was beginning to have a far greater interest in the criminal, and the divided mind." Doubtless this divided book will not have done with the Droodists - or with subsequent versions. It is merely the best to date: arbitrary, full of guesswork and lively writing, and ample evidence that whether Edwin Drood is dead or not, Charles Dickens is alive...