They answer two kinds of questions: (1) precisely how might some hypothetical situation develop, step by step and (2) what alternatives exist, for each actor, at each step, for preventing, diverting, or facilitating the process.
As someone who has both kept resolutions ("Maybe stop eating meat??") and broken them ("Be a nicer person!") I've done some mathematical calculations, and based on cold, hard stats (but mostly my own opinions), I've worked out precisely how long some of the most common resolutions get kept for.
All councils know it will be bad; the settlement will tell them precisely how bad (for some the margin amounts to tens of millions).
A firm that had thought about, say, the mutation of default risk into liquidity risk would have had a head start over its competitors in 2008, even if it had not predicted precisely how this would happen.To some, stress testing will always seem maddeningly fuzzy.
Mr. Batiste grew up in New Orleans in a family of musicians, though he can't even remember precisely how he's related to some of them, like Alvin Batiste, the jazz clarinetist, and Milton Batiste, of brass band fame.
This count of cases would probably raise the official death count somewhat -- precisely how much is unclear because some of the complaints released by the Highway Traffic Safety agency were vague, and details of others were withheld.
However, unlike a study of verbal memory through recall, discovering precisely how much participants remember from some visual display through change recognition requires modeling, and models have been developed for this purpose.
Last night there was some confusion as to precisely how many political prisoners had been released.
After his death, his school, the Lyceum, carried on for some period of time, though precisely how long is unclear.
