For starters, assessing and implementing aid policy requires developing tools to gauge accurately where need is greatest.
Pentagon officials deny this, saying it was impossible to gauge accurately the size of opposition forces that had been gathering in caves.
National Voices, a coalition of health and social care charities, has found it impossible, during the last year, to gauge accurately how the act's provisions would affect direct patient care and treatment.
But that cannot be the story's end, for to gauge accurately whether a role is positive, the calculus must perforce take account of the flip side -- the extent to which openness impairs the public good.
"We are seeing all kinds of intersections between technology and entertainment," he said, although the economic impact is difficult to gauge accurately because of outdated statistical categories that, for example, lump computer software jobs with business services.
Their problem, as suggested by Mourinho in the buildup, is that they are not tested enough in their domestic league to gauge accurately just how far they can expect to progress in Europe.
Support for Mr. Musharraf within the army, which is considered Pakistan's most important institution and is under growing pressure from the insurgency, is hard to gauge accurately, said two Western diplomats who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Justice Brennan summed up, "It is arrogant to pretend that from our vantage we can gauge accurately the intent of the framers on application of principle to specific, contemporary questions".
"It is arrogant," Justice Brennan said, "to pretend that from our vantage we can gauge accurately the intent of the framers on application of principle to specific, contemporary questions".
With chaotic scenes in and around the capital, Port-au-Prince, officials said it was impossible to gauge accurately the scale of the disaster, but the country's prime minister, Jean-Max Bellerive, told CNN the final death toll could be well over 100,000.
