Cashman recalled the meetings, how the Boss had an uncanny ability to ask the one question he could not answer — the vague item in the budget, the blurry sentence.
Handed one particularly vague item, a senior intelligence official tells Ashish Khetan that, "there is no address, no telephone number, no specific identification of the suspects provided in this alert.
By Philip Hamburger and Wolcott Gibbs The New Yorker, April 6 , 1940 P. 13According to a vague item in the papers, Mahatma Gandhi is planning to appear in a movie, which "will depict his student life in England, his early days as a lawyer in South Africa, and his famous meeting with Charlie Chaplin.
Vague item descriptions and the request to provide intuitive scores may have contributed to this finding.
This scheme resembles in its basic principles the Delphi method (e.g., Linstone and Turoff 1975), but it is targeted to overcome its main critics (vague questionnaire items, not equal treatment of respondents, significant number of dropouts, see Cook 1991and references therein).
Vaguely worded items among the new Constitution's 411 articles would broaden definitions of property to include communal ownership; allow Indians to mete out corporal punishment under their own legal systems; extend limited autonomy to regional prefects; and reaffirm state control over Bolivia's ample natural gas reserves.
Another major concern is a very vague line item that calls for better implementation of international tax enforcement, reform of tax deferral for income earned and kept overseas, and "other tax reform policies".
Item vague, ambiguous The meaning of the item or words within the item are unclear and can be understood in multiple ways in the source text, leading to potential mistranslation in target languages if the wrong nuance is chosen.
