Word: predictabilities
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...It’s kind of our home course, it definitely feels familiar,” senior co-ed captain Kyle Kovacs said. “We seem to be able to predict it a little bit better...
...took advantage of a first-half goal by co-captain Megan Merritt and a strong defensive performance from sophomore goalkeeper Lauren Mann to record its second consecutive Ivy win. “Days like this are always exciting,” Merritt said. “You can never predict the outcome. The team really needed to bring the energy and heart, and I think we did.” The defense keyed the Crimson’s victory, as the unit helped Mann record her ninth shutout of the season—two short of Harvard?...
...conflict between the provinces and the center over these policies," says Li Datong, "it's not because of a dispute over the policies, it's because there's a dispute over who benefits. When the people who have benefited have to lose power, then it's very hard to predict what will happen." Given such challenges, it's probably just as well Hu managed to inject a brief moment of humor into the Party Congress. He may not have much to laugh about in coming years...
Abortion is no less prevalent where the procedure is prohibited, according to a study from the Guttmacher Institute and World Health Organization. It's just more dangerous. "The [legal] status of abortion seems to predict not the number of abortions that occur but the safety," says author Dr. Gilda Sedgh. Half of the 42million abortions worldwide are performed by unskilled individuals or in unhygienic conditions. Overall, abortion is down; Eastern Europe has the highest rate, with 105 abortions per 100 births...
...massive show of force by unions, the real key to their success is whether those stoppages can be replicated and sustained over time with greater numbers of public sector workers joining the walkouts - and convince public opinion to back their efforts. That kind of strong opposition, some pundits predict, could cause Sarkozy to effectively pull the "special regime" revision off the table in order to avoid the same kind of long, bitter, and economically disastrous conflict of 1995. But such a stand-down would also badly damage Sarkozy's tireless self-promotion as a fearless reformer bent on pushing through...