Word: predictabilities
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...millennia; learning that shapes the future. A university looks both backwards and forwards in ways that must—that even ought to—conflict with a public’s immediate concerns or demands. Universities make commitments to the timeless, and these investments have yields we cannot predict and often cannot measure. Universities are stewards of living tradition – in Widener and Houghton and our 88 other libraries, in the Fogg and the Peabody, in our departments of classics, of history and of literature. We are uncomfortable with efforts to justify these endeavors by defining them...
...effort to chip away at a right declared again and again by this Court--and with increasing comprehension of its centrality to women's lives." Someday we'll know whether the right to abortion will be chipped to nothing by the Roberts Court--or whether, as some legal theorists predict, the issue fades away with the arrival of further advances in contraception. As for the actual decision that provoked Ginsburg, it's a stretch to think that it will be central to the lives of women...
...stressful job or a bad relationship may not send all of us into depression or to the ER - statistically speaking, most of us weather the stresses of life just fine - but for now it's impossible for doctors to predict who will be susceptible and who won't. So, whether it's a matter of quality of life, or life and death, it's probably good advice for the stressed-out folk among us to take a breather now and again. "With chronic stress, we may not feel it in our cardiovascular systems, but we do feel drained," says Brotman...
...While we can’t predict what will happen with humans, we hope it will have similar results to rats,” Binshtok said...
...Each of the Houses have sets of routines, and this was flying in the face of those and really put everybody at risk because you couldn’t predict who was going to come and you didn’t know the ages of the people who were coming,” Palfrey said yesterday...