Word: predictableness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that whales put these sounds together in startling ways. Cummings and Philippi, who worked on the Navy's marine mammal research program, found that in the right whale, "Low frequency sounds occurred in similar stanzas lasting 11 to 14 minutes...These phonetic components...were so orderly that listeners could predict the appearance of the next type of signal." Carl Sagan noticed that the same phenomenon occurs in the humpback whale who is known to sing "songs" that are up to 30 minutes long, and then to repeat them a little later "phoneme for phoneme." He asks, "Is it possible that...
...Crimson margin of victory might have been greater had Celine Larkin not aggravated a thigh injury and forfeited her last battle. Larkin yesterday explained that her thigh is very swollen and that she cannot predict whether she will be out a few days or a few weeks with the injury...
...armchairm quarterback (or manager) the year's most interesting gift idea is a biorhythm prediction kit for professional football (or baseball). The charts and tables allow you to plot the biorhythms of the pros, to predict which team will triumph on which particular day. When you reach an advanced stage of the art, the ads say, you can even predict the score. Or at least how well Roger Staubach is getting along with his wife...
...Refugees. The 2.3 million Palestinians living in the diaspora would have the right, in principle, to join their 1.1 million brother Arabs who live in the West Bank and Gaza. Many experts predict that no more than 500,000 of these Palestinians-in-exile would do so. One reason is that thousands have established solid roots in Lebanon, Kuwait, Jordan and elsewhere. Another is that for many Palestinians, the "homeland" is not the West Bank but Jaffa, Galilee and other areas of what is now Israel...
...might predict, the characters come to understand their delusions, for the time being, anyway. But how could freshman year end any other...