Word: predictabilities
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...Although Lomu will be missed, fans will not want for great rugby. Though this will be the second World Cup of the professional era, it will be this one, many predict, where more and smarter preparation will kick in, producing the highest-quality rugby ever seen. There's a feeling, moreover, that the best sides will exhibit a playing style in which even the most indifferent observers will see a certain beauty. The '99 World Cup in Wales had its moments, but Australia won there not because they were the most elegant and imaginative side when they had the ball...
...appears now, one of the most competitive games to take place this weekend will be between the Bears and Columbia, which is second in the Ivies. Still, at this point in the season, it is incredibly difficult to predict who will end up coming out on top come November...
Lepri also says she disagrees with critics who predict a drop-off in business...
...Pope, 83, could finish no more than a few sentences of his opening remarks at the Bratislava airport. Vatican insiders say the apparent effects of Parkinson's disease have become more difficult for the Pope's doctors to control with medication. "They no longer are able to predict how he will be from one day to the next," said a longtime Vatican observer. A Roman Curia official described the Pope's daily schedule as "greatly diminished," which heightens concern about his ability to make executive decisions for the church. Resignation is not being considered, according to a senior Vatican official...
...heavily politicized land-grab starting in 1998. There are widespread reports of hunger, alleviated only by food donated by the World Food Program and the U.S. Agency for International Development. But widespread food distribution, especially in areas that had voted against Mugabe, was hampered and limited. The best indicators predict that because farmers cannot obtain fertilizer, take out bank loans or depend on any consistent law and order, hunger and starvation will only escalate in the months to come...