Word: predictabilities
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...current showdown with unions. Even his conservative backers and resisting union leaders seemed anxious for Sarkozy to become personally involved in resolving the conflict. But it's still unclear when that will happen. With Sarkozy's personal involvement as arbiter viewed as decisive in brokering a solution, his rather predictable comments Tuesday suggest he's willing to risk the strikes continuing into next week, when he'll return from an extended visit to China. "We're not going to try to predict the unstable nature of French protest movements," Martinon says. "We'll just keep focused on applying reforms voters...
...series of investigative pieces on China’s environmental policies. It focuses primarily on China’s lack of progress on green initiatives and the government’s human rights violations against vocal environmentalists. Likewise, a recent Crimson op-ed went so far as to predict that “many Chinese may never see a blue sky for their entire lives...
...gamine who never smoked, always used sunscreen and did yoga, but went in for a routine checkup and was told she wouldn't see her 25th birthday. But while it used to be difficult to know who would and who would not be its victims, cancer is easier to predict these days. Its causes are actually very well understood, and many types of the disease are preventable - which helps to explain why braggadocio isn't heard in the oncology ward, a place full of regret. Picture yourself lying in one as your dumbstruck spouse and children hover over...
...We’ll make it up to you later,’ and they never do. So this time we won’t be fooled again.”Melvoin points out the difficulties of renegotiation once new technology becomes profitable. “Nobody can predict with certainty the way the future is going. We need to be smart about it and need to hang tough about it. So far the other side has indicated no movement to share the new media, and that’s a problem, since we’re not going...
...depressing streaks. At the same time, the present is a constant concern—how to make the best of a transition year, how to establish a program.And then there is the future, one that Harvard hopes will be bright, but one that is also impossible to predict.“I don’t have a crystal ball, to say this, that, and the other is going to happen;” Amaker says. “We’re hopeful for the best right now.” Timetables don’t exist now, while...