Word: predict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Charles River. In Minneapolis a few pro- choice protesters burning a flag were rushed by three waiters from a nearby topless bar. In Atlanta about 450 pro-choice activists carried to the state capitol a stack of coat hangers, a grisly symbol of the back-street butchery they predict if abortion is outlawed...
...greeting the happy news that they are free once again to exercise their democratic prerogatives on the subject of abortion with a reserve bordering on clinical depression. "It's terrible to have this issue back again," New York Assembly Speaker Mel Miller told the New York Times. Others gloomily predict "a mess" and "havoc...
...expects sub mishaps to occur at a rate of one every three months, but naval experts predict the troubles will continue. "The incidents were coincidental," says James McCoy of London's International Institute for Strategic Studies, "but the problem is that the frequency of this sort of incident is higher in the Soviet navy per reactor than anywhere else." Admiral Sir James Eberle, a former NATO commander, agrees: "There are indications that their engineering is not of the standards needed in the nuclear business, that their attitudes to safety means their training standards are not adequate. Soviet subs are more...
...venture must also win congressional approval before it can proceed, since antitrust law generally prohibits joint manufacturing ventures between major competitors. But experts predict that Congress will make an exception for U.S. Memories. Besides the potential gain in chips, they contend, the lessons learned from the DRAM joint venture could show American industry how to become more competitive in other high-tech areas, including high-definition television...
...Thursday-night news conference, Bush explained why. "The situation is still very, very murky," he stressed. Washington is simply unable to discover who is in and who is out among the Chinese leadership, let alone predict what actions they may take. The President disclosed that he personally attempted to telephone "a Chinese leader" (Deng Xiaoping, whom Bush got to know in his Beijing days), but "I couldn't get through...