Word: guesswork
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...Guesswork,” one regional scout for an American League team told me. “Complete guesswork.” Scouts responsible for an entire quadrant of the country can’t follow the Chris Schutts of the world around for much of the season, so this might be the only chance they get to see him in game action...
...We’re eliminating the guesswork,” Barro said. “Now we know exactly where the money is going...
...President Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction. The scientists and their families could then join “a witness protection program” planned for such defectors. Especially in these most urgent and time-constrained of circumstances, weapons inspection relies on a kind of educated guesswork; inside information could eliminate much of this uncertainty and mean the difference between peace and an extended, disastrous...
...Evening News his country possessed no "nuclear or biological or chemical weapons." The CIA maintains Iraq's race to acquire a fresh supply of weapons has accelerated. The evidence it has presented so far is somewhat soft. Without inspectors on the ground, U.S. intelligence has been doing mostly guesswork. Spy satellite photographs can show sites and buildings but not what's inside them. That has left the CIA to rely largely on reports from Iraqi defectors, and their anti-Saddam stories are hard to verify. Analysts have also patched evidence together by following the smuggling trail that Saddam leaves when...
...rights actions from 1960 to 1965, culminating in the March on Washington. Anderson deftly moves from the terrifying street-level violence, such as the brutal Birmingham marches, into the backrooms where squabbling amongst competing organizations continually challenged the success of all their efforts. Several fascinating sequences imagine, with reasonable guesswork, the private conversations between JFK and MLK. Where more scholarly biographies could give us little of such moments, Anderson's novelistic approach allows us to feel the chemistry between these two indomitable, yet morally nuanced, characters. As the book goes on the artistic advantages of this approach become more clear...