Word: predictably
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, library officials are preparing for the short-term adjustments that will inevitably result as students and faculty begin using the new terminals. They say there is no way to predict how many people will use the newly installed computers or how the technology will affect the research habits of the community as a whole...
...warming is not slowed, scientists predict, the greenhouse effect will melt enough of the polar ice caps to threaten the water supply of New York City and the very existence of low-lying New Orleans by the middle of the next century. Areas that are now productive farmland would become parched and dusty...
Meanwhile, library officials are preparing for the short-term adjustments that will inevitably result as students and faculty begin using the new terminals. They say there is no way to predict how many people will use the newly installed computers or how the technology will affect the research habits of the community as a whole...
Meanwhile, library officials are preparing for the short-term adjustments that will inevitably result as students and faculty begin using the new terminals. They say there is no way to predict how many people will use the newly installed computers or how the technology will affect the research habits of the community as a whole...
Political polls, in general, should be presented to the public with more warnings than cigarette packs. Besides the standard notice about potential sampling error, surveys can be skewed by ephemeral news flurries. Further, they cannot predict election results; "horse-race" studies merely provide a snapshot of voter sentiment at one instant in a long campaign. But even that modest claim is shaky in the tumult of Campaign '88. The profusion of polls this summer resembles not so much an album of still photographs as a movie of Keystone Kops at their most kinetic. "Hardly an hour goes by without...