Word: guesswork
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...able to make mistakes and see where they lead you. I started working in the shop in the Loeb not knowing what a screw gun did and went from there,” she explains.Laubacher’s trial-and-error philosophy allows for mistakes, guesswork, and creative intuition, as well as a great deal of collaboration. The set for “Sweeney Todd” is closest to her heart because its versatile and striking design was produced by group effort. “In a really profound way, every work of a single individual...
...financial system, almost everyone seems to be in favor of continuing that partnership. What confronts us at the moment is not so much a philosophical debate over nationalization as a practical discussion about how best to put the banking system back on its feet. We're talking tactics, judgments--guesswork...
...some, a man who bothers to paint a blade of grass is an anachronism who must have been born in the previous century. The late Bernard Berenson, going on guesswork, believed that Wyeth was dead ("What a pity America has starved its painters," he murmured). No foreign museums or collectors have ever bought his work...
...dissenting minority, puts it - has its limits. Economists have neglected the subject for so long that their theories of how stimulus works are shockingly underdeveloped. Many of the arguments they make for one proposal or another are the product not so much of economics as of common sense, guesswork and ideology. The motley mix of tax cuts for families and business, aid to states, infrastructure spending, health-care spending and alternative-energy investment that constitutes Obama's stimulus plan is partly the product of campaign promises and political compromises. But it's also a good reflection of the current muddled...
...much more precise cost-benefit analysis ahead of time. "A drug can take 12 years or longer to develop from start to finish," says Steve Sembler, who oversees Roche's U.S. commercial operations. "Diagnostics give us a much longer-term perspective and take a lot of the guesswork out of the process...