Word: guesswork
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...gave them such helpful hints as this one: "You may wish to reject an inference of predatory intent if you find that a substantial motivation of Brown & Williamson's entry into black and white cigarettes was LIFO decrement avoidance tax benefits." No surprise -- the stymied jurors fell back on guesswork before awarding Liggett $49.6 million...
...enveloping its 22 million people in a bell jar of propaganda, thought control and mythology glorifying the Kims, often in public pageants that would dwarf a Cecil B. DeMille production. What factions may exist in the leadership, who controls them and what they stand for -- all are practically pure guesswork on the part of the most diligent outside intelligence analysts. What is reputed about Jong Il -- known as the Dear Leader -- is itself a mass of contradictions: terrorist and warmonger, or would-be economic reformer and peacemaker? A pampered, pouting sorehead indifferent to responsibilities, or a relatively shrewd go-getter...
...seems certain that the contest they both sought so ardently to win will unfold without decisive evidence of Harding's innocence or guilt. The satisfying simplicity of sport, with its winners and losers and tangible numbers and seemingly objective results in a world otherwise given to opinion and guesswork, will in their case be marked by an asterisk of moral doubt. Perhaps that ambiguity reflects the real world as it mostly is. But that is all the more reason to hope for something else from sport...
...cocoon of the giant corporation -- company-paid health care and pensions, company softball and bowling teams -- these visions may seem less empowering than terrifying. They are adventuresome, perhaps, but lonely and frighteningly insecure. And of course the visions may never come about, at least not fully; they are guesswork. There is only one safe prediction about the job market of the future: it will not bear much resemblance to the recent past. Asked when the job market might get back to normal, Greenberg of the A.M.A. states, "If your model for normal is the 1960s, '70s or '80s, we will...
...painter's painter. There is nothing intimidating about his work, as there often is about Rubens'. He loved private character and painted the interplay between that character and the public mask with a sensitivity that few artists have rivaled since. Sometimes he would seem to have done this by guesswork. His 1633 portrait of Henry Percy, "the Wizard Earl" who spent 16 years of his life immured in the Tower of London for his supposed complicity in the Gunpowder Plot, is an icon of saturnine intellect, from the same introspective domain as Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy...