That's it. That's all we have is a series of guesses.

They can make some educated guesses.

Here are my best guesses. Okay?

Yours comes from guesswork, ours from the Bible.

And in this way, you can take the guesswork out of policy making by knowing what works, what doesn't work and why.

Fiscal stimulus turned out to be more widespread in 2009 than one might have guessed.

In such a speculative climate, the Group conducted an audit of FACI air assets.

So judgment calls and best guesses are an inevitable part of scientific economic forecasts.

And in this way, you can take the guesswork out of policy making by knowing what works, what doesn't work and why.

This lack of knowledge of what lay north of the shifting barrier of ice gave rise to a number of conjectures.

The best assumption, and one of the best guesses in this stuff, is that this stuff comes out of this stuff, that these things absorb sunlight, rot under pressure for millions of years, and you get these black rivers.

Somebody speculates, somebody decides, there's a belief, enough people join in this is what a thing costs.

Now let's do a search. When we were announcing the new Twitter there was a lot of speculation going on.

But the odds are you're probably wrong, but it's a great first starting point, but the question is how do we change those guesses into facts?

Companies and governments have to make informed guesses, because some of their investments today will last longer than 20 years.

Speculation continues about the extent to which Al Qaida, the Taliban and associated individuals and entities have used precious commodities as a means of holding and moving money.

Indeed, extrapolations of global supply that foresee an increase in uranium mining are based on claims about the ability to expand output in Kazakhstan.

The arrow of time cannot be completely understood until the mystery of the beginnings of the history of the universe are reduced still further from speculation to understanding.

While the Tunisian blogosphere has still not picked up on Ben Mhenni's speculation, Twitter is humming with Egyptians reacting to Ghonim's and Abdelfattah's news.

But I hope that we shall look, and with any we probably won't find anything, none of these speculations may have any basis in fact.

You use those yellow stickies to put up all your hypotheses and you probably don't have many facts yet but you can make some pretty good guesses about what's a value prop, where the customers are, what your channel is and what your pricing is, but what more can they do is really interesting.

There should be no race to be Medvedev s new best friend, and no staring into his eyes and speculating about his soul.

Economic forecasting is necessarily imprecise too many things happen for forecasters to be able to foresee all of them.

Meanwhile some speculate that the true reason for blocking Google has more to do with promoting the so called Iranian national Internet which was supposed to become operational on 22 September, but has so far not appeared.

There is much speculation about the reasoning behind the government s decisions in May to dismiss the pro Hezbollah chief of airport security and investigate Hezbollah s private telecommunications network, which sparked the confrontations.

President George W. Bush s second inaugural address set forth an ambitious vision of the role of the United States in advancing the cause of freedom worldwide, fueling worldwide speculation over the course of American foreign policy during the next four years.