Word: predictabilities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...very difficult to predict those prizes," Corey says. "There are thousands of very good people working in science all over the world...
...Americans and a German were also rewarded with the Nobel Prize in Economics using game strategy -- employed in, say, chess and poker -- to predict the market. The winners: John C. Harsanyi, a retired professor from the University of California at Berkeley; John F. Nash, a mathematician at Princeton University; and Reinhard Selten of the University of Bonn...
Florida orange growers are expecting a bumper crop this year, which usually means lower prices consumers. The Agriculture Department is expected on Wednesday to predict a Florida orange crop of 196 million boxes, the second largest crop in history. On Tuesday, Agriculture officials said that fresh fruit consumption in the U.S. has reached its highest rate in 40 years: last year, the average American ate 26 pounds of citrus fruit...
...drive up the negatives of their opponents -- once they get out of Washington to campaign at the end of this week. Those with seniority can remind constituents of the pork-barrel spending, the tax loopholes and other goodies they have delivered for big employers in the district. Democratic strategists predict that the threat of a Republican takeover of Congress -- and of cuts in programs popular not only with the poor but also with the middle classes -- will help mobilize their force. "Do the Republicans want to take on seniors? Labor? Veterans? Farmers? Social Security recipients and all the rest?" asks...
...officials were racing this evening toward a trade deal that could open Japanese markets to U.S. goods. But the clock was ticking fast toward a midnight deadline when tough American sanctions kick in. The chief negotiators -- U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor and Japanese Foreign Minister Yohei Kono -- refused to predict the outcome. Subordinates expected they'd probably see eye-to-eye on several areas before sunup, but not on the biggest sore spot: auto manufacturing. TIME Washington correspondent Adam Zagorin says a U.S. move toward partial sanctions will probably spark "an irritated, if measured" Japanese response, followed by months...