Sentences with phrase «safe old standbys»

And that includes the supposedly safe old standbys like «strategy» and «counsel»: huge databases of business and legal intelligence will be able to provide increasingly reliable indicators of how various tactical approaches will pan out.

Not exact matches

The results are «very encouraging,» says Mariano Esteban, a poxvirus researcher at the Universidad Autónoma in Madrid, Spain, adding that they could prelude a safer generation of smallpox vaccines for humans to replace the old standbys from the smallpox eradication era.

FWIW it is my prejudice that the AR4 claim «very likely» «most of the warming» etc. is sufficiently weak to be safe against arguments that do not rely on very high sensitivities e.g. a random walk, with the possible exceptions of some unappreciated dominant forcing or that old standby that «the climate is chaotic to a degree that permits all possible outcomes».