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...Forecasting prices, however, has become an increasingly inexact science for analysts, as prices in recent months have galloped ahead of their worst predictions. Says Oswald Clint, a London-based analyst for Sanford Bernstein: "A year ago, our predictions for November 2007 were about $50 to $62 dollars a barrel" - at least $35 short of Tuesday's price. The oil-research firm predicts that expanded production will bring oil prices back to $70 a barrel by 2010. But to Birol, that sounds optimistic...
...while all these news items could affect the outcome of the primaries, not all presidential punditry has to be such an inexact science. Beyond ambiguous flirtations with the press, many candidates have taken concrete steps in their campaigns that can be measured and compared. TIME has selected a few meaningful metrics that we hope will add some new dimensions to sizing up a candidate's chances. It means a lot to be number one in the polls (Clinton and Obama are tied), but it means almost as much to be number one in fundraising (Kerry edges out Clinton...
...data, the appearance of a long-term trend might ultimately be more informative.“We’d need to have a couple years of a trend in a row before making any conclusions,” Semonoff said.“It’s an inexact science,” Berman added. “But it’s the best we can do at this point.”Christina V. Perry ’06, who has been volunteering at the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter since her freshman year, said...
...many awards and accolades, it's getting boring. But she isn't. She has the ability, like a glass bullet, to carry fragility and force, to be beautiful and a little unnerving. While her work reeks of an almost clinical precision, Kidman's approach is fallible and inexact. "I just feel my way through," she says. "If I had to give an acting class, I wouldn't know what...
Acoustics is a notoriously inexact science. Acoustical flops of the 1960s, like New York City's Lincoln Center and Los Angeles' Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, took some of the luster off the profession. Lincoln Center, Nagata says, "was an example of what happens when you leave acoustics up to academics. It's like going to a dietitian to cook you a great meal. Nutritionally, it may be perfect, but it'll probably lack something." For an engineering job, acoustical consulting requires exceptionally delicate people skills: designers must juggle the vision of the architect, the quirks of the orchestra and the whims...