For most of us in the online journalism business, writing headlines basically amounts to guesswork.
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The criteria for which pages are targeted for the supplemental index remains a subject of guesswork.
Until recently, determining the source of the pollution relied on little more than guesswork.
We are reduced to relying on what amounts to informed scientific guesswork based on computer simulations.
But any speculation as to what all this DNA does is really only guesswork.
Because, by definition, laundering is a secretive business, judging the amount of dirty money is largely guesswork.
Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan's prime minister, hopes to end the guesswork and has just ordered a fresh census.
How much official Chinese money has found its way into peripheral euro-zone countries is a matter of guesswork.
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But just like here, you're better off with a number from an analyst, who'll apply some intelligent guesswork.
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Catalysts have long been a dark art, more inspired guesswork than analytical science.
Admittedly, forecasting and cost-benefit analysis on big, long-term projects such as this amount to little more than complicated guesswork.
You can also access calorie counts and nutritional information from local restaurants, taking the guesswork out of eating out.
Human-rights groups in Madrid estimate that Spain has up to 700, 000 illegal workers, though the numbers are largely guesswork.
There is a lot of guesswork and hidden information built into each transaction.
Optimizing your tax strategy involves some arcane arithmetic and a lot of guesswork about your future and about congressional behavior.
Using visits to companies and a lot of educated guesswork, they come up with fully diluted earnings-per-share increases for 2007.
No phone taps were ever authorised, so the government had to resort largely to guesswork to determine who was responsible.
There is little guesswork here: Even the lecture topics are vetted by surveys and focus groups before courses are created.
Until then, gauging party support - and strength in the electoral college - is mainly a matter of educated guesswork.
If it performs as advertised, the Nomad should remove some guesswork from the complicated process of perfecting a shot of espresso.
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More cases will probably be filed, and without a single case at trial, any estimate is based on lots of guesswork.
As the guesswork of managing IT is removed, so are the days of lengthy training to learn and understand machine language.
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The idea is to take the guesswork out of development and maximize audience appeal by designing a product around direct customer input.
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"Unlike existing traffic alert solutions, we're helping take the guesswork out of commuting, " said Stefan Nusser, Functional Manager, Almaden Services Research, IBM.
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Yet even if Lord Layard's theory is right, his figure for the optimal tax rate looks like little more than convenient guesswork.
Typically management is careful about disclosing details prior to the split, so analysts must employ more than the usual amount of guesswork.
But until the oil industry returns to work, figures are just guesswork.
Mr Rose has swept away any lingering guesswork and approximation about the intellectual life of the British working classes in the industrial age.
Apple is applying for a patent on a technique that would take the guesswork out of listening by smoothing out all the quirks.
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Phone interviews, along with written interviews, carry too much guesswork baggage to be valuable in a scientific study, and Spitzer certainly knew that.
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