Vocabulary: surveillance, hijackings, credible, attribution, speculation, deter, assertion, clandestine, corroborate, sheik, embassy, retrospect, disparate, credible Extension Activities: 1.
The trick, of which Professor Davies is a master, is turning wild speculation into credible scientific hypothesis.
"Folks, we need to spend our time following up on the credible things," Mr. Bouchard emphasized in dismissing speculation about "a copycat killer".
This heady bit of historical-cinematic speculation is new to me and might be more credible if she didn't also say that Albert Maltz (later one of the Hollywood Ten) was one of the writers of "Casablanca".
It added: "As it has always been said, the public ministry [Portugal's body of independent public prosecutors] will only open the case if new, credible and relevant facts arise, and not more hypotheses or speculations".
A credible and transparent policy minimises uncertainty and facilitates efficient markets by eliminating speculation on the central bank's next move.
This is just the latest speculation regarding the semi-mythical wearable (albeit from an unusually credible source, Re/code's long-time Apple watcher John Paczkowski) but just what do we really know about Apple's smartwatch?
I don't feel like they've necessarily based everything on fact; I think they've based a lot of it on speculation and rhetoric and on the testimony of some not very credible sources.
Speculation that other currencies may replace it as the world reserve currency is simply not credible.
This part of our history is so up for grabs that there is lots of room for speculation by polymaths curious enough to read the mountain of anthropological literature and piece together a credible story of human behavioral evolution.
