Word: predictabilities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Russia's history as part of the Soviet Union was marked by aggressive maintenance of the status quo, Grigoriev said. If Russians didn't have much to expect from the future, they were at least able to predict...
...Clinton's. Expect a nail-biter tomorrow when the Senate Finance Committee votes on Moynihan's strategy. He'll push voluntary measures to have employers pay for medical insurance, but effectively make them pay ONLY after 5 years if too few Americans are covered. Key Republicans on the committee predict they'll successfully defeat the thing Wednesday, prompting TIME Washington correspondent Dick Thompson to speculate that Moynihan (with White House coaxing) has set up the GOP members to be the spoilers who ruin health-care reform's chances...
...manufactured goods is up 0.7% for the first quarter, compared with the same period last year. But in Germany and most of the rest of the E.U., wallets have stayed shut. Bonn recently gave citizens additional reasons to remain tightfisted by raising gas and social security taxes. Some analysts predict a 3% decline in consumer purchasing power this year...
...Because of the growing popularity of in-line skating, experts predict that it will cause twice as many accidents this year as in 1993, when 37,000 luckless skaters wound up in emergency rooms...
...RUSSIAN NATIONALISM: The four republics of Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and part of Kazakhstan are linked to us by millions of ties. That makes the artificial division into states very painful. I have always said we should never resort to coercive measures. I cannot predict the future, but I would like to see a single state formed out of those four states...