Word: predictabilities
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...childless Crown couple;in Tokyo. The baby, who could be the Chrysanthemum Throne's 126th Emperor, is due inSeptember. Despite the fact Masako's 1999 miscarriage was blamed on the media frenzy that surrounded that pregnancy, more than 100 journalists flocked to her parents' home last week. Pundits predict a nationwide baby boom. PLEADED INNOCENT. DRAGAN OBRENOVIC, 38, to genocide charges stemming from his role in the 1995 Srebrenicamassacre of 7,500 Bosnian Muslims; in The Hague. According to his indictment Obrenovic carried out the orders ofGeneral Radislav Krstic to "kill all inturn" in what is now considered Central Europe...
...weeks ago, I ventured a prediction to a colleague, in fun only: The NASDAQ has bottomed. But he wrote it down, demanded that I sign it and plastered it on the office wall. So I guess I'm on the record doing something no one should do--that is, call the market. If Wall Street has taught us anything in the past year, it's that stocks are wholly unpredictable in their behavior. Yet if the "experts" didn't predict the market, what would CNNfN and CNBC have to talk about...
...find it hard to believe that scientists can accurately predict what kind of weather we will have in 100 years. Last month we in the New York metropolitan area heard alarming predictions of 2 ft. of snow in Manhattan, but we ended up getting just a few inches. If looking only a couple of days into the future can produce a weather-forecast goof like that, how can anyone accurately predict what the effects of global warming will be 100 years from now? PAUL MCGRAW Rockville Centre...
...Trying to predict what consumers will do has always been the soft spot of economics as a science - it's an exercise in futility. Consumer sentiment numbers are thought to be a good predictor, but there are times that there's a big difference between what consumers think and what they...
...Consumers have always been an enigma. All the mathematical models in the world have never been able to predict consumer behavior, and what we've seen from the confidence numbers is that even the consumers themselves aren't great predictors of what they're going to do with their wallets. Right now, it looks like they could be pulling us through again...