It's an inexact science, to be sure, with some decisions paying off better than others.
Inexact analogies, all of them, but close enough to fall into the gray zone.
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Murray is correct that predicting how tax changes will affect economic growth is an inexact science.
To be fair, creating a list like this is at best a very inexact science.
But as any investor knows, projecting future returns is an inexact science, at best.
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Spreadsheets spit out results from your inexact assumptions and give you a false sense of security.
The cases of Russell, Leinart and Bush aren't uncommon, given the inexact science of the NFL draft.
Here the parallels with the credit crisis three years ago become ominously inexact.
To be sure, calculating a brand's real contribution to the market cap of a company is an inexact science.
They also employ algorithms to determine the fair value of each listed property, lending some rigor to a once-inexact science.
But it does mean that predicting future coaching success is an inexact science that has to rely on the intangible.
Is an intelligence professional the best way to go -- someone who understands the inexact science of the collection of intelligence?
Ultimately, says Mr. Hallock, compensation is an inexact science, determined by labor-market conditions, company budgets and individual employees' performance and turnover risk.
Word clouds are certainly inexact, but the differences in the words, results and colors across these slides are both meaningful and striking.
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And, as commonplace as deception is, deception detection remains an inexact science.
The company said some blister packs might contain an inexact count of inert or active ingredient tablets and that the tablets might be out of sequence.
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London has a reputation as the world's surveillance capital, but estimates of the number of cameras in the city and the rest of the U.K. are inexact.
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And, after stripping out the effects of the economic cycle (an inexact business, admittedly) the underlying fiscal position is roughly in balance, unlike in the early 1990s.
As Mr Mishkin made clear at Jackson Hole, estimating by how much is an inexact business, even if you knew how far house prices would drop, which no one does.
In the extremely inexact science of deciding a soccer player's value, the one thing that most Premier League teams can agree is that they want players with Premier League experience.
Financial historians point to 1937 as a rough parallel but it's an inexact one and, despite one of the greatest stock market rallies ever, few traders came out on the right side of it.
Millionaires Go Missing suggest that studies are often inexact.
Body Mass Index (BMI) is defined as the ratio of weight (in kg) to height (in meters) squared and is an inexact measure of body fat, though it supposedly establishes cutoff points of normal weight, overweight, and obesity.
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Accuracy is generally an important consideration in computer chips, but a team of researchers led by Rice University are touting a new "inexact" chip (dubbed PCMOS) that they say could lead to as much as a fifteen-fold increase in efficiency.
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Klausology is always an inexact science, but after taking soundings in Brussels, I get the feeling that the consensus among key players is that Mr Klaus is still on course to sign the treaty before too long (ie, before the end of the year).
Rising sea levels, salination of fresh water, droughts, floods... the maths of future climate impacts are inexact, but on a global scale the costs are likely to rise, not fall - and by far more than the costs borne by highly profitable Chinese airlines as they fly inside the EU's climate policy umbrella.
Having monitored the number of utility patents (an inexact but objective measure for innovation) granted by the U.S. Patent and Trade Office to countries during this period, it was fascinating to observe that the number of patents of foreign origin over taking those from the U.S. in 2007 for the first time in history.
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