Word: predictabilities
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Congress Party politicians predict Vajpayee's government will be "an eight-day wonder." Congress has pledged its support to a loose coalition of communist, leftist and lower-caste parties called the National Front-Left Front. Leaders of that group claim that it already has the backing of more than 300 members of parliament, enough to win a confidence vote. Says S. Jaipal Reddy, spokesman for the Janata Dal party: "The fall of the B.J.P. government is as certain as death...
...note that the military aspects of Dayton have been implemented almost completely with no loss of life to NATO forces from hostile action. The Bosnian Serbs pulled back on schedule. Sarajevo was united under Muslim control. No one--not even the negotiators at Dayton--would have dared predict this five months ago. Still, it is too early for self-congratulations. Other divided lands--Korea and Cyprus, for example--bear witness to temporary cease-fire lines that turn into permanent dividing lines...
...immaterial as a stick of kindling, a laketop as impenetrable as a cliff's face. The film is handled episodically, with a full fade to black between scenes. These pauses in the narrative slow the film down and thwart the efforts of audience members to gauge the pace or predict the plot. The moments of blankness, which Jarmusch describes as "respiration," also serve to showcase Neil Young's virtuoso soundtrack. Young has created a raw, wiry sonic complement to the film, as compelling as the visual elements and the plot. Jarmusch described Young's goal as creating a "melody...
Jacobsen says he foresees learning more about chemical relativity and selectivity during the rest of his career. He says he hopes that lifetime scientists will be able to understand chemical systems and predict whether a reaction or catalyst will work...
...know the precise academic and professional course his or her life will take at such early stages in the game. Correction: No one outside of Harvard is assumed to possess such foresight. But amid the red-bricked buildings of Cambridge, we are not only expected but required to predict what we see ourselves doing for a while, if not forever...