By staging mock trials or convening focus groups they can make a good guess about how trials will come out, which may encourage settlement.

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Indeed, by taking several cores, progressively further from the coastal dune, and seeing how far a sand layer extends, he can make a good guess at how powerful a passing hurricane was.

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