We treat guidance for professionals as a luxury you can guess what gets cut first when school-district budgets are slashed.

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You can guess what the lede was after the launch in New York.

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You can guess what the message will be.

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Microsoft quickly sued Google over Lee's departure, claiming Lee had violated a noncompete agreement. (On Sept. 13 a U.S. court let Lee start his job at Google.) You can guess what Lee's motivation to jump ship was.

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You can guess what happened.

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It's a military veterans organization, and McCain is a member, so you can probably guess what kind of reception he got.

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Well, guess what: You can put together an investment portfolio of great U.S. blue chip stocks right now that are paying close to 4% and that have a history of increasing dividends.

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You simply cannot know what a share is going to do, you can only guess.

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How much -- I guess, can you go into a little bit of what we might expect to hear from the Vice President in terms of his message to the Chinese about our fiscal situation?

WHITEHOUSE: Via Telephone

But again I guess this is a perfect example of you can't control what other people say and they run their business as they see fit.

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So I guess what I'm getting at, there is that -- can you give us a sense of how this is all going to finish?

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing