Word: inexact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wide Variables. Though they have scant evidence to back their accusation, some Washington officials charge that the energy companies understate reserves in order to promote price deregulation. Industry leaders respond that estimating reserves is a highly inexact science. Explains Dale Wood-dy, chief of Exxon's domestic natural-gas operations: "Two well-qualified engineers can take the same raw data from a new field and come up with reserve estimates that may vary by more than...
...story, told frequently down in Maine, is doubtless apocryphal. But it reflects the fact that despite modern instruments and meteorological methods, weather forecasting of any kind remains at best an inexact science. Dreams of actually doing something about the weather are equally unrealistic. People pausing to rest as they shovel out from under this winter's snows or shivering in chilled homes may look longingly toward a day when science will be able to make weather to order. Was the Big Freeze really necessary? Answer: alas, yes. Despite some limited successes in making it rain on demand, most scientists...
...quake measuring 3.2 shook the ground about 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) from Hollister. This successful, unpublicized prediction shows that scientists are moving closer to their goal of reliable earthquake forecasts (TIME cover, Sept. 1, 1975). But predicting how people will react to public forecasts is still somewhat of an inexact science...
...seems spun in webs of fragile silver," and on and on. Lovers and Tyrants is relentlessly overwritten; Gray leaves no noun unmodified in her search to recapture the past. She never settles for one evocative detail when a page-long list of sensations will do. Her diction is inexact ("voluminous" eyeglasses?) as is the overall effect of her prose...
There were four men behind the door I slid open, but they waved me in vigorously and it was kind of a plush cranny, the likes of which I hadn't come close to in a while. None of them spoke English, but three of them prodded snatches of inexact but useful French out of a sullen type with a mustache, and with the additional aid of maps and newspapers, we managed a make-shift dialogue. We may not have interpreted every word in the same way, but I'm pretty sure we set a few facts straight. First...