Both the Nyaya and Vaisheshika schools of Hindu philosophy had a great deal of reverence for inference and a proto-scientific method.

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The Managers alleged that the signing of the affidavit and the obtaining of the job for Ms. Lewinsky were linked, based on inference from bits and pieces of testimony of Monica Lewinsky and Vernon Jordan.

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All of which raises the disturbing inference that too much of what passes these days for Wall Street regulation is little more than generating revenue via fines rather that timely detecting and preventing misconduct.

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According to mobile application team manager, Paul Lanzi, Genentech has standardized on Apple for mobile, with 17, 000 iOS device users worldwide (so by inference, 10, 000 iPhones, though it surprises me less and less when I hear about companies deploying iPod Touches, too).

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Dr. SHIRLEY BERESFORD (Epidemiology, Washington State University): It would not be an unreasonable inference to say these women had been consuming high levels of fat in their diet for maybe 40 years.

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"The inference was that the FDA may be changing its policy and requiring superiority or distinctiveness for new drugs coming to a market that is already crowded, " says Jeffrey Lieberman, chairman of psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center.

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