Word: guesswork
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...foster-care record. Last January it concluded that the system in Los Angeles County operates with minimal data on its wards and a safety-monitoring process that is random at best. Some departments are not aware of what others are doing, so a child's safety often relies on guesswork. "Fundamentally," says Bridge, 34, "we've come a very small distance from the days when I was in foster care." In short, he adds, Los Angeles County lacks the ability to know the full nature of the quality of care foster children actually receive, "the full extent of harm children...
...while all known predictors point to a real nail-biter today, and even die-hard pundits are at a total loss to call a winner, both Bush and Gore seem confident in the outcome. And in less than 24 hours, all the speculation, all the prognostication and the guesswork will be moot: We'll finally be privy to the final chapter of this never-ending story. And then Luntz, Gallup, et al. can get to work on polling to see why it worked...
...always takes the first step; the defender has to adjust. Let's suddenly send the candidate to South Dakota. Why? Well, we're not exactly sure; let the press figure it out. Yes, there is more science to it than reporters think, but there's also a lot more guesswork masquerading as knowledge. And speaking of basketball, here's my final rule...
...could not prove that the specific segments of the trial the lawyer had slept through were vital to the outcome--that a reasonable probability existed that, but for his lawyer's sleeping habits, the verdict would have been different. To ignore major deprivations of constitutional rights based on such guesswork is antithetical to basic conceptions of fairness...
...know anything about film directing. So I actually come at it exactly the same way I come at acting. I'm just doing it for a hundred people instead of one. The only thing I keep learning is where to put the camera. And to me, it's just guesswork. I come at it from a stage background and I go "What's the best seat in the house for this?" The camera for me becomes a dance partner to the actors. If I move a camera, it's because a character's inner life is moving the camera...