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...never should have sunk, and the spill should have been contained." The crew's deliberate flooding of empty tanks on one side of the hull to get the ship back in an upright position created far too much stress, says Wade. "After that, the final sinking could be easily predicted. Its death warrant was signed." And the Spanish authorities, he contends, exacerbated the effects of what should have been a minor oil spill by refusing to give the damaged vessel permission to dock in a sheltered area. "It leaked over 290 km of coast instead of in a small...
...predict a similar outcome at the game tomorrow—Yale falling defeated at the feet of the mighty Cantabs. The only difference will be a much larger margin of victory...
...already cut 1.2 million jobs this year through October--that's about 3,600 a day--according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas, the Chicago outplacement firm. Sun Microsystems, Boeing, McDonald's and J.P. Morgan Chase have announced that they will slash thousands more jobs in coming months, and many experts predict still other layoff announcements by year...
Stop him before he belts out Nobody Does It Better--but it's hard to argue with his point. The question with Die Another Day is not whether it will be a hit but how big? Predict Bond's demise at your own risk. How many of his critics has he outlived already? In Dr. No, the fisherman Quarrel warns, "It don't do for a man to tempt Providence too often." Always a gambler, 007 seems to have taken those words as a dare. And 40 years later, it's safe to say we have a response...
...batter in all nine positions and seeing how many runs he would generate.” Using an elaborate process called matrix inversion and the 24-square expected runs table reprinted on Morris’s clipboard, Cover’s paper explained how advanced statistical techniques could predict how many runs a lineup consisting of nine of any given player would score...