Word: inexactness
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...University of Texas introduced the same computer system in August, said Marsha Beckerman, an official in food services there. She added, "Cooking was such an inexact science before computerization...
...Verdon Roe developed the Avro biplane. They live in Surrey with their two sons and cooperate on birth control campaigns. She first published Married Love in 1918. Since then she has sold 700,000 copies in England alone. Copies heretofore in the U. S. were smuggled or pirated (with inexact text). Its thesis is that procreation is but one function of marriage, that love activity benefits husband and wife mentally and physically, that wives should be as forward in the play as husbands...
...data used to show that a rise saves lives come from states which raised the drinking age from 18--none exists with hikes from 20 There is a logical explanation for why the two might be different. Even supporters concede that the "drinking age" is an inexact law, and that raising the level from 18 to 20 was aimed at saving 14-to 18-year-olds by getting alcohol out of the high schools. The current proposal could serve no similar purpose. Most 20-year-olds can pass for 21, or have a friend who is. The records show that...
Twenty to 30 years ago, it would have been more difficult for any plane to follow or strict flight instructions. Long-range navigation above clouds or over the sea was an inexact science, and planes often meandered wildly off course. Now most commercial jets on intercontinental flights are equipped with Inertial Navigation Systems, which permit a pilot to get an instantaneous readout of his position with no more than a mile or so of error after a flight of 6,000 miles. Such equipment seldom fails; most transoceanic planes, including Korean Airlines Flight 007, have two systems operating, with...
...colloquial phrase "rule of thumb" is supposedly derived from the ancient right of a husband to discipline his wife with a rod "no thicker than his thumb." In the U.S. the statistics reflect no unprecedented epidemic of domestic violence, but only a quite recent effort to collect figures?often inexact, but startling even when allowances are made for error?on what has always existed: ¶Nearly 6 million wives will be abused* by their husbands in any one year. ¶ Some 2,000 to 4,000 women are beaten to death annually. ¶ The nation's police spend one-third...