Doing so requires a lot of reading between the lines (or in the case of the Indians reading between nearly nonexistent lines), but informed speculation — coaxing meaning out of inert data — is part of the job of writing history.
The split between science and meaning was bound to lead to assault by the one side against the other for excluding it: sympathy with meaning led to outrage against scientific psychiatry, and adherence to science led to contempt for speculations about meaning.
RS Arctic Monkeys Photograph: David Fisher/Rex Features 6.20pm GMT Harriet Gibsone, also tirelessly getting pissed working at this year's ceremony, is excited to report that Beyoncé is indeed backstage at the Brits meaning speculation that she's performing looks likely.
Manuel, who kept his dignity in recent months as the team disintegrated around him, conceded the pall he felt "once you see yourself scrolled on the bottom line" — meaning speculation on the sports channels that he will not be retained and that Minaya could also be in for a career shift.
A replacement as artistic director at Céline was not named, meaning that speculation will now turn to who gets that job, and the whole increasingly messy game of musical chairs will continue into 2018.
Although Clark had claims to tens of thousands of acres of land resulting from his military service and land speculation, he was "land-poor," meaning that he owned much land but lacked the means to make money from it.
Hip-hop — with its novel sounds and its complexly rhymed, free-associative lyrics — now feeds into Mr. Gartside's music along with the yearning, harmonically convoluted ballads of Brian Wilson, the ebullience and structural experiments of the Beatles, the slick rhythm tracks of dance music and R&B, touches of reggae and speculations about meaning and identity, including pop's racial subtexts.
There's no real Republican frontrunner, meaning lots of wild speculation will dominate the coming months.
But speculation often proves wrong on this show, meaning that Lindzi Cox could walk away with the stone after all.
Meaning, although it's pure speculation at this point, don't be surprised if the online food ordering company raises over $250 million at a multi-billion-dollar valuation.
