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...take a while to get used to. First you have to learn the pattern, which is not easy. See, a lot of people think you're just sitting there driving--well, you have a blind side. You have a side you can't see. It's a lot of guesswork...

Author: By Shira A. Springer, | Title: Jack Kirrane: Making His Final Rounds | 11/2/1996 | See Source »

...Duke routinely use the computer to provide the best treatment possible for their own patients, like Therwell Wrenn (see photo panel next page), an electronic-components designer suffering from coronary-artery disease. To some extent, the bytes and bits stored on those ordinary-looking machines have taken the guesswork out of cardiology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOC IN A BOX | 9/18/1996 | See Source »

Concern over this trend may be alarmist, but with heady modern science one cannot be too careful. One scientist said it was high time that history was taken away from the historians. History is guesswork, but science will set us free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIG, MUST WE? | 7/8/1996 | See Source »

Until the auction, Caroline and John may have got a bigger cash inheritance from family patriarch Joseph Kennedy than from their parents. For anyone outside the inner family circle, and possibly to some inside, Kennedy family finances can only be guesswork. This much is known: through speculation in movies, liquor importing, the stock market, oil and real estate, Joseph Kennedy had amassed an estimated $300 million by 1963. Guesses as to the total Kennedy family wealth that this fortune has blossomed into today run anywhere from $1.5 billion to $3 billion. True, it has been divided among swarms of children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TAXMAN COMETH | 5/6/1996 | See Source »

This solution only works for new applications, though; many older programs originally designed for Windows 3.1 don't have uninstall features. Windows 95 and 3.1 users alike are still stuck with guesswork for these files...

Author: By Kevin S. Davis, | Title: tech TALK | 4/16/1996 | See Source »

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