Word: guesswork
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...really something that most physicians know very little about." A survey he has conducted collaboratively with the Computer Science Department will, once examined, hopefully provide a quantitative portrait of the disease, a description of trends and percentages that will rescue RSIs from much of the conjecture and guesswork that characterize discussions of it here at Harvard...
...predict what lies ahead, we must often rely on guesswork. But the nature of our present ignorance points to problems science cannot avoid. The most obvious of these is the question of what happens in our head when we are thinking. Nobody yet has a compelling answer for that. People surmise, but no surmise can yet meet the tyrannical test that every assertion about the nature of the world must be proved by experiment or observation...
...come to our table. So we decided to make a foray to the buffet spread instead. There were salad items on one end and dining hallstyle vats of unidentified soupy stuff on the other. No sign of labels. Rather inconvenient for the uninitiated. But with a bit of gastronomic guesswork I was able to match most of the dishes with the items listed on the menu. The star of the spread was definitely the Beef Oxtail. The meat was unbelievably tender, the kind of tender where you practically don't have to chew. It had a piquant, peppery flavor with...
...most important people at Duke Med, is on a flight to Washington, where he is scheduled to lead an international strategy session on how heart-failure drugs should be studied. As director of the Duke Clinical Research Institute, he is charged with doing whatever he can to take the guesswork out of medical care, and he has a specific statistic he wants to change. "Only 15% of the decisions a doctor makes every day are based on evidence," he recites...
This solution only works for new applications, though; many older programs originally designed for Windows 3.1 don't have uninstall features. Windows 95 and 3.1 users alike are still stuck with guesswork for these files...