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...Joint Economic Committee, headed by Senator Proxmire, also learned that the price estimates the DOD had been accepting with no proof were made without reuquiring the contractors to establish formal cost estimating systems. The DOD's own auditors have pleaded for 10 years to put an end to such guesswork. Contractors ignored them until the GAO started putting on the heat early last year...
Which of them would do it is a matter of guesswork. Baker is certainly a steadier, more experienced runner than his younger teammate. "He has a good emotional temperament," says McCurdy, "and can't be psyched out in a race." And in the five mile races Baker and Shaw have run together this season, Baker...
...careful research that makes the products of his map room so accurate, says Chapin, he must sometimes rely on informed guesswork. He remembers a week during World War II when a cryptic cable arrived from John Hersey, then a TIME correspondent, from Honolulu: "If Chapin is a wise man he will know what to map in the Pacific this week." Chapin studied a Pacific map to find what might make him wise. The only possibility, he concluded, was the Solomon Islands. When U.S. Marines invaded Guadalcanal, TIME'S map was ready to go to press...
EVEN in the most tranquil of times, a federal budget contains much guesswork: spending, revenues and general economic conditions for a period ending 18 months after the calculations are made must be reduced to hard figures. The Administration's fiscal-1969 budget presented to Congress this week contains more than the usual quota of uncertainties because of war, both raging and threatened, in Asia; volatility in the domestic and world economies; hostility to new taxes, and the fractiousness of election-year politics...
...promising way of taking the guesswork out of presidential promotions is the internship program sponsored by the American Council on Education. Seeking out aspiring administrators on practically every U.S. campus, the A.C.E. every year sends up to 45 of them to another school as assistants to a top college administrator. There, the interns spend a year shadow-boxing with the problems of their hosts, taking a detailed look at how another campus operates-and incidentally enjoying more study time than they are likely to have again in their career...