It's one thing to talk about it based on models and photographs.
The United States is applying a one-size-fits-all model of targeted strikes -- based on models and experiences from Somalia and Pakistan.
At larger scales, most studies are based on models.
These could be based on models that they now use for internal risk assessment, or that bank examiners have developed.
They went after the pollsters, the analysts and the people that lay out quantitative projections based on models, not opinions.
Initially, however, the deflection did not match predictions based on models of the planet and rings.
Other efforts to predict behavior were based on models of human nature.
The answer was about 20 terawatts; based on models, another three terawatts were estimated to come from other isotope decays.
And based on models of travel patterns published earlier this month, we already knew that an imported case of Ebola might make its way here.
As far as I can make out, Mr. Greenspan's optimism is entirely based on models predicting that tax cuts and low interest rates will get the economy moving.
A key plank of Conservative education policy is to allow parents to establish their own schools, based on models in the US and Sweden.
