Word: guesswork
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Concern over this trend may be alarmist, but with heady modern science one cannot be too careful. One scientist said it was high time that history was taken away from the historians. History is guesswork, but science will set us free...
Until the auction, Caroline and John may have got a bigger cash inheritance from family patriarch Joseph Kennedy than from their parents. For anyone outside the inner family circle, and possibly to some inside, Kennedy family finances can only be guesswork. This much is known: through speculation in movies, liquor importing, the stock market, oil and real estate, Joseph Kennedy had amassed an estimated $300 million by 1963. Guesses as to the total Kennedy family wealth that this fortune has blossomed into today run anywhere from $1.5 billion to $3 billion. True, it has been divided among swarms of children...
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...
...Yale is a long and difficult course with many blind shots and guesswork to the green," Nielsen said...
Professors and administrators say larger-than-expected attendance is the biggest problem with shopping period, while those responsible for producing course materials complain of too much guesswork...