Word: predictabilities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...party on, unconcerned. They don't know that disaster looms. But we do; this is the same familiar war-movie territory we've seen in countless other films. "We also know that we are in for a very long day?s journey on writer-director Bruce Beresford?s endlessly predictable 'Paradise Road,'" says TIME's Richard Schickel. "Do we know that the ship carrying the women and children to safety as Singapore surrenders to the Japanese will be sunk, Red Cross markings or not? Can we predict that the well-spoken Japanese officer some of the survivors meet when they...
...makes its closest approach to Earth, the comet will be high in the evening skies over the northern hemisphere, brighter than ever and showing a short but prominent tail. And there it will sit, not for a measly week like Hyakutake, but for more than a month. "I predict that this could be the most viewed comet in all of human history," says Daniel Green, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts. "This will be one of the brightest objects in the sky. It'll be hard for the average person...
King asked the panelists to predict when women players would enter the major league, and the positions that they would occupy...
...think I'm in the best place in the world for me, in what I want to get on a daily basis in quality of life and quality of profession," Delaney-Smith says. "I can't predict how long I will stay here, but I love it here. I want to stop coaching when I am not effective or when I don't enjoy...
...full modernization without losing political control are daunting. The party's one remaining claim to legitimacy rests on its ability to deliver sustained economic growth and rising incomes. Once people are rich and fat enough, they begin to demand a say in their own governance. What no one can predict is how long China can continue to achieve economic advances without modifying--or being forced to modify--its repressive political system...