Word: predict
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Genetic counseling once relied more heavily on mathematics than medicine to predict the chance of hereditary handicaps. But it is now possible for doctors to identify and catalogue chromosomes. If there are certain chromosomal abnormalities, the prospective parents are informed that they will almost definitely produce deformed offspring. While this knowledge may take some of the mystery and romance out of procreation, it also eliminates much of the uncertainty. As one geneticist puts it, "There is nothing very romantic about a mongoloid child or a deformed body...
McCurdy declined to predict a winner. "First, out of loyalty to the CRIMSON. We'd like to predict a 23-2 win," he said. "The nature of the sport eliminates this. However, we'll predict a win. We'll only hedge on naming the team...
...League sports information directors predict that Dartmouth will retain the League football championship in '71, its second successive crown...
...deal with all the circumstances of America's illness. I don't want to hide my art. The first mistake was going to a white institution and asking for something." But B.E.C.C.'s Benny Andrews disagrees. "We've made our point," he says. "I predict that within two or three years there'll be a black curator walking around the Whitney...
...billion-dollar gamble, the industry's biggest since repeal. The prime plungers: Schenley, Seagrams, National Distillers, American Distilling and Publicker. They are betting that the drink will appeal to changing American taste, especially among young people and women, who generally demand a "light" liquor. No one can even predict with certainty how light whisky will taste until it has matured a legal minimum of four years; in its present unripened state it somewhat resembles whisky-flavored vodka. Prices will range between the cost of a popular Scotch like Johnnie Walker Red Label and an inexpensive blend like Imperial. Some...