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PENN at LAFAYETTE--No guesswork here. The Quakers will munch on the Leopards as if they were so many fried shrimp. Penn 35, Lafayette...
What has reduced last season's clockwork to guesswork...
Because instant and credible information has to be given, it becomes necessary to resort to guesswork, rumors and suppositions to fill in the voids, and none of them will ever be rectified, they will stay on in the readers' memory. How many hasty, immature, superficial and misleading judgments are expressed every day, confusing readers, without any verification. The press can both simulate public opinion and miseducate it. Thus we may see terrorists heroized, or secret matters. pertaining to one's nation's defense, publicly revealed, or we may witness shameless intrusion on the privacy of well-known people under...
Just how did the OMB arrive at these figures? Director James Mclntyre admitted to the subcommittee that the report was based on a combination of guesswork and the honor system. Said he: "We all have to rely on information from Government agencies." Retorted Chiles: "The IRS has to rely on the information it gets from people too, but the process is greatly helped along because we know it does audits...
...President had overstated the dangers of the energy crisis. Carter played up a CIA report indicating that the world would begin to run short of oil as soon as the mid-1980s. In fact, the CIA study is questionable: its estimates of world demand are in some cases frankly guesswork, and they conflict with the calculations of other experts, notably those employed by the 24-nation Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development...