Word: forecaster
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...Today Australia has looked to the future," said the country's newly elected Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, claiming victory for his Labor Party for the first time since 1996. Poll after opinion poll had predicted a Labor triumph in national elections, but few had forecast its scale. Labor captured at least 22 seats from the ruling Liberal-National coalition - including, it appears, the northwestern Sydney seat held for the past 33 years by Prime Minister John Howard. With 77% of votes counted in Sydney's Bennelong district, Howard trailed by several hundred votes. In an emotional speech Nov. 24 Howard...
...phone company would front. Next up: the games and entertainment sector. In November, Polk struck a deal with Nintendo that lets owners of the wi-fi-- equipped Nintendo DS game machine play networked games for free at the Cloud's hot spots. Guess whose business stands to get disintermediated? Forecast for the mobile-phone industry: partly Cloudy...
...cheaper than a new robot. "We are obsessed with getting costs down," says Jobson. Back in his office, he pulls up a graph showing York's productivity. In 1998 it took 38 man-hours to produce a ton of chocolate. This year's time is forecast to drop to 23 hours--a 40% improvement...
...Crimson’s B-division duo that fared best, also taking ninth place. Junior Roberta Steele and sophomore Liz Powers shared time at skipper for the division, while Brants was in sole charge of crew duties during the nine races. “The forecast was for really cold weather and really high breeze, but it wasn’t quite so bad,” Brants said. “There was a high-velocity breeze on Saturday, and on Sunday, the wind direction was shifty and very variable.” That variable wind had its biggest...
...We’ve got to find a way to get more pressure on the quarterback,” Wilson said.DRY AND MIGHTY Sharp winds and heavy rain beset Cambridge most of Saturday afternoon, but the storm barely missed New York, marking the second straight week when the forecast called for worse weather than actually occurred.The swirling winds in Wien Stadium, however, did make things difficult for sophomore punter Thomas Hull, who averaged just 31.7 yards on seven kicks.Both teams’ kickers, Patrick Long and Jon Rocholl, missed extra points.Harvard head coach Tim Murphy stopped short of blaming...