This lack of foresight is not surprising, because markets and the course of the economy are not modelable scientific phenomena but rather are examples of mass human behavior, which is never predictable with anything like precision," Singer says.
Link low-yield nuclear weapons with a word like "precision" and their use in a real war starts to feel almost justifiable -- and so much more satisfying, apparently, than simply maintaining a nuclear arsenal for the purpose of never using it.
While others are just discovering ergonomics, Acura has moved to a higher plane, with controls that feel like precision instruments.
Sixes were judged with drone-like precision with two from Watson teasing the hands of fielders in the deep before opting for the more alluring bosom of the crowd.
Bryn Terfel makes for a jovial and vocally pliant Sir John; the rest of the cast, including Thomas Hampson, Adrianne Pieczonka, Dorothea Röschmann, and the young Russian tenor Daniil Shtoda, is splendid; and the Berlin Philharmonic plays not only with jewel-like precision but with a delicacy and radiance that can only be called love.
Like a smartphone, it would combine electronics and software into a seamless user interface for any setting, but it would also, with laboratory-like precision, process human body fluids with fickle mixtures of biological and chemical reagents.
He danced with silly affectation -- skinny, black-jean-clad hips shaking back and forth, arms spread wide and angular like a rare bird, head preening on slender neck -- mouth twitching with the shadow of a beneficent smile, aimed with radar-like precision at the adoring crowd.
Pine Needles can frustrate any player, but starting the third round with a three-stroke lead, Webb navigated the course with machine-like precision, hitting 14 fairways off the tee and putting herself in excellent position to approach the greens.
On one visit the team worked with clock-like precision.
Weston slices into sentences with scalpel-like precision.
The gables were snipped and trimmed and the edges angled off with barber-like precision.
