Word: guesswork
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...Evening News his country possessed no "nuclear or biological or chemical weapons." The CIA maintains Iraq's race to acquire a fresh supply of weapons has accelerated. The evidence it has presented so far is somewhat soft. Without inspectors on the ground, U.S. intelligence has been doing mostly guesswork. Spy satellite photographs can show sites and buildings but not what's inside them. That has left the CIA to rely largely on reports from Iraqi defectors, and their anti-Saddam stories are hard to verify. Analysts have also patched evidence together by following the smuggling trail that Saddam leaves when...
...rights actions from 1960 to 1965, culminating in the March on Washington. Anderson deftly moves from the terrifying street-level violence, such as the brutal Birmingham marches, into the backrooms where squabbling amongst competing organizations continually challenged the success of all their efforts. Several fascinating sequences imagine, with reasonable guesswork, the private conversations between JFK and MLK. Where more scholarly biographies could give us little of such moments, Anderson's novelistic approach allows us to feel the chemistry between these two indomitable, yet morally nuanced, characters. As the book goes on the artistic advantages of this approach become more clear...
...such ideas are still guesswork. "If we really want to understand these people and develop good ways to prevent pedophilia, we need a national demographic survey," says Berlin. "The funding is minuscule, so the research is incomplete." And politically fraught. Everyone who works in the field constantly negotiates America's discomfort with children and sex. Yet understanding child sexual abuse means not only exploring its prevalence, causes and treatments--issues that focus on the abuser--but finding the best way to help victims cope as well. And that research is positively radioactive...
Delegates may declare their support for a particular candidate but are not bound by this promise. Any attempt to tally delegate support for a particular candidate can only be determined by the guesswork of local Democratic committees and campaigns...
TIME: Sounds like a lot of guesswork when you look out even three years...