Word: guesswork
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...never was any challenge to Dr. Mack's right to do research on "abduction," to propose hypotheses or to hold controversial opinions. That Mr. Dershowitz would prefer to believe otherwise is puzzling. He either hadn't seen the committee report, in which case he was relying on hearsay or guesswork, or he had seen the report and chose to misrepresent it. The committee was critical of Dr. Mack not because he was interested in the "abduction" phenonmenon but because he wasn't doing any scientific research on the problem and wasn't being sufficiently objective and detached in his clinical...
Opponents also charge that much of the Terrace's design will be no better than guesswork by architects from the master's school at Taliesin West in Arizona, who are supervising the construction. Wright completed only a handful of sketches for the Terrace's interior, so the project supervisors have had to imitate colors, textures and materials used by Wright in other designs of the 1950s. Says architectural historian Narciso Menocal: "It's like finding a 15-page synopsis of a Hawthorne novel and having someone else turn it into a 500-page book. Whose novel is that...
...million private wars being waged across America -- a ragtag army of the abused and the ignored drifting aimlessly like flotsam out of sundered families. Each year as many as 1.3 million teenagers flee home, according to the National Network of Runaway and Youth Services. While the statistics are guesswork, social workers on the front lines perceive a worsening problem. "We're finding that the numbers are going up and the kids are getting younger," says Sister Mary Rose McGeady, president of New York City-based Covenant House. "In Houston the average age is 15. When I was there a year...
...gave them such helpful hints as this one: "You may wish to reject an inference of predatory intent if you find that a substantial motivation of Brown & Williamson's entry into black and white cigarettes was LIFO decrement avoidance tax benefits." No surprise -- the stymied jurors fell back on guesswork before awarding Liggett $49.6 million...
...enveloping its 22 million people in a bell jar of propaganda, thought control and mythology glorifying the Kims, often in public pageants that would dwarf a Cecil B. DeMille production. What factions may exist in the leadership, who controls them and what they stand for -- all are practically pure guesswork on the part of the most diligent outside intelligence analysts. What is reputed about Jong Il -- known as the Dear Leader -- is itself a mass of contradictions: terrorist and warmonger, or would-be economic reformer and peacemaker? A pampered, pouting sorehead indifferent to responsibilities, or a relatively shrewd go-getter...