Word: predictably
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...usually a betting man, largely because I seem to have an innate ability to pick a team to win and have them finish fourth, or predict another to lose and watch them embarrass me by winning easily. When the swimming team faced Dartmouth earlier this winter I put my money (actually it was a six-pack of Tuborg) on the Big Green, figuring that the Indians (oops, can't call them that anymore) were too strong for Don Gambril's team. Harvard, however, won decisively and I lost the brew...
...impossible to predict the outcome of the hearings. Some Democrats, who could finally go either way have tacitly supported the Gray nomination. Majority Leader Mike Mansfield has indicated he would go along with Nixon's choice, but he adds a qualification: "Pending the hearings." At those hearings, opposition can be expected from liberal Democrats like Teddy Kennedy and Birch Bayh of Indiana But Gray may have a more dangerous foe in West Virginia Conservative Democrat Robert Byrd. "In the nine months that Mr. Gray has held the post of acting director, there has been increasing criticism of that bureau...
With so much riding on the outcome, the contest is almost impossible to predict. Every event will be crucial to each team's chances, but several shape up as particularly critical. As always the relays, which start and end the program, will be a key. Yale has slightly better times in both, so coaching strategy in manning the relays will be an important factor...
Perhaps not, but Georgia Congressman John Davis, a leading Democratic member of the House Science and Aeronautics Committee, shares the concern of scientists that "they are no longer represented at the President's elbow." Other critics predict a more immediate problem: a potential conflict between Stever's job as director of the federally funded N.S.F. and his new post as science adviser, in which he will give advice on the allocation of federal funds to scientifically oriented agencies...
...waves seem less affected by the fissuring. Then, as ground water seeps into the cracks, the P waves speed up again. Seismologists do not know how widespread the newly discovered phenomenon is, but if it is indeed common to all seismically active areas, it may eventually be used to predict the earth's upheavals-including such disasters as the quake last December that destroyed much of Managua, Nicaragua...