Word: guesswork
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...zero-tolerance approach ends the guesswork. In the early '90s, schools began adopting one-strike-and-you're-out policies for kids who secreted weapons or drugs on campus. The President gave zero tolerance a big push when he signed a 1994 law requiring one-year suspension for students who take guns to school. But by definition, zero tolerance erases distinctions among student offenses. Hence the national crackdown on Alka-Seltzer. Since 1996, schools in four states have suspended at least 20 children for possession of the fizzy medicine...
Books about the market's direction are pure guesswork. Elias and that other Kadlec as much as admit that there's nothing special in their forecasts. Elias predicts Dow 40,000 by 2016, an average annual gain of 9%. Kadlec projects Dow 100,000 by 2020, equal to 11% a year. Given that stocks have returned 17% a year over the past 20 years, it's hard even to call them bulls. About all they're saying is that the U.S. will remain a sovereign nation. I'd call that a real sturdy limb they've climbed onto...
...earnings basis, after all, a company with no profit is as expensive at $20 a share as it is at $40. That's what makes Net stocks so confounding. Most lose money, and predicting when they'll turn a profit and how big that profit will be is sheer guesswork...
...source known as Deep Throat. Culeman-Beckman researched the theory for a high school history class and this summer copyrighted an essay supporting it. But Carl Bernstein says he never told Jacob or his mother, screenwriter Nora Ephron, the identity of his source. Jacob was "repeating his mother's guesswork," Bernstein told the New York Post. Ephron concurs: "Carl never told me who Deep Throat was... But I always suspected it was Mark Felt." Felt, now 86, dismisses the theory. "I would have been more effective," he told the Hartford Courant last week...
That being the case, it's no surprise that the relationship between diet and cancer is still largely a matter of educated guesswork--and in many cases, the guesses have turned out to be wrong. Take the much publicized link between high-fat diets and breast cancer, for example. Women who live in Western countries, where high-fat diets are the norm, tend to have high breast-cancer rates. Even more telling: women of Japanese ancestry who live in the U.S. get the disease six times more often than their grandmothers and great-grandmothers in Japan. Yet a huge recent...