Word: predictableness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...adds that the communication is part of a broader effort to determine how admitted students fare. Fitzsimmons says the admissions office conducts “validity studies” to assess how well test scores and grades predict students’ success at Harvard...
...viewfinder. Would we believe for a minute that Ansel Adams was sad the day he was able to stop lugging around glass plates in favor of film? William C. Simone Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U.S. Movies have evolved and will keep doing so as technology advances. I predict that Hollywood will eventually make feature-length movies by digitally re-creating long-gone movie legends. Using computer-generated imagery, animators will create fictional actors and maybe even render live movie stars a thing of the past. And on Oscar night, the red carpet in Hollywood will be rolled out for the computer geeks...
...Still, many luxury-goods retailers predict that their India business will develop relatively slowly compared with their business in other emerging markets such as China. One major barrier is India's stiff tariffs on high-end imports?the tax on imported watches, for example, is 50%. Joseph Wan, Group Chief Executive for Harvey Nichols, the London-based retailer, says India's recent economic growth and indications that New Delhi is prepared to liberalize its markets are encouraging, but adds that prime real estate in Indian cities is too expensive and that tariffs are prohibitively steep. "Harvey Nichols caters...
Fitzsimmons said that the College’s yield—the percentage of admitted students who choose to enroll here—has hovered around 78 percent in recent years, but he noted that it is impossible to predict precisely how many students will accept Harvard’s offer...
...retrospect--for instance, if you look at the other stars in the food universe, you could argue that Lagasse became something larger, an uberversion of himself, nearly a decade ago, when his management team literally trademarked his expressions "BAM!" and "Kick it up a notch." You can also predict a branding; with her new magazine Every Day with Rachael Ray, the unnaturally perky Ray--who plays a flibbertigibbet on her show 30 Minute Meals but is said to be a savvy businesswoman--seems poised to grow beyond her niche of working women...