Word: predictabilities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Israelis on the streets, and some of the German rightists who assault and kill Turks and other foreigners. Their depredations are "unorganized, unstructured, spontaneous acts with a political motivation," says Ernst Uhrlau, director of the Hamburg branch of an agency equivalent to the FBI. Police can never predict where or whom they will strike because, says Uhrlau, the offenders themselves "don't know in the morning what they will be doing that night...
...Soviet Union, which routinely rewrote and rearranged history to fit its political needs, there was a saying: In Russia it is impossible to predict the past. Well, in the bourgeois normality of the democratic West, one should say: Here it is impossible to predict the future. So when confronted with the apocalypse du jour, keep your head...
...autumn. Clintonites have even organized a war room -- dubbed an intensive care unit -- to coordinate a kind of marketing campaign. How soon Congress may act, however, and how much of whatever plan Clinton produces will survive the push-and-pull of the lobbyists for particular interests, no one can predict...
...There can be no consentual relationship when there is an asymmetrical relationship," says Margot N. Gill, dean for student affairs in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. "Because there is a hierarchical relationship and one party is responsible for judging the work of another, the parties can never predict when that relationship will go sour...this inevitably creates a bias...
Associates predict Edelman, in today's speech, will broach her preferred subjects: the plight of America's abused and poverty-stricken children and the necessity for Americans to dedicate themselves to service if there is to be any hope for societal reform...