Word: predictabilities
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...While we cannot predict the future, we can prevent and prepare,maximizing every resource available to us,” Swift said in her state address...
...irrational-exuberance moment Greenspan reminded his audience that economic forecasting - and its kissin' cousin, investing - has been made even more difficult by the "major uncertainty that we all must deal with these days: The specter of further terrorist incidents on American soil. It simply is not possible to predict whether there will be any such incidents or to forecast their possible consequences for the economy...
...Then there's the bag check issue. According to the ATSA every bag will be subject to some type of security check by January 18th, 2002. That's an optimistic assessment. Experts predict that while more bags certainly will be screened in the New Year, it's not clear exactly when we can expect all bags to be funneled through high-resolution x-ray machines before being loaded into a cargo hold...
Parsons' rise would have been hard to predict back in May 2000, when the executive positions for the newly merged AOL Time Warner were announced. He and Pittman were given the same title, but it was Pittman who got the plum assignments. Subscriptions were seen as the future of the company, and the divisions that relied on them--the AOL online service, cable TV, the Time Inc. magazines--reported to Pittman. Parsons got divisions, like books, music and movies, that customers bought on an old-fashioned per-use basis. He has since worked on President Bush's Commission to Strengthen...
...controlled experiment testing those fancy French theories about disease as a social construct. I was officially, publicly healthy. Now, with almost no objective medical change, I am officially, publicly sick. How will that change the actual effect of the disease? Without, I hope, distorting the experiment, I predict that this notion of disease as a function of attitudes about disease will turn out to be more valid than I would have suspected eight years...