Word: predictably
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mostly from Congress, via an emergency appropriation, White House officials predict. But selling the idea of new foreign aid is the political equivalent of root canal. Luckily, however, an alternative exists, a reallocation of the $15 billion the U.S. sends abroad each year -- funds still distributed according to a formula established when the old world order flourished...
...continue to count on a hefty budget for aids research, which along with breast cancer is the only disease to have received more money in the Clinton Administration's National Institutes of Health budget. Critics have been grumbling that AIDS absorbs 10% of the NIH outlay. Now gay activists predict more Congressmen will echo Congressman Robert Dornan, who said of gays last week, "They've lost their edge on the floor. This collapse in their figures will influence the aids debate significantly...
...Hawking's wheelchair. Commenting on Hawking's oft-expressed hope that physicists may soon construct a theory that would unite all the forces of nature into one mathematical equation suitable for a T shirt, a so-called theory of everything, he declaims alarmingly that it could be used to predict that "a particular snowflake would fall on a particular blade of grass or that you would be reading this now." Never mind that such deterministic ambitions died long ago with the discovery of quantum uncertainty. Faced with that prospect, who would not reach for the candles and tarot cards...
White House officials predict that the strains between Clinton and the military will fade as the two grow more familiar with each other and the dual strategy of charm and tough love kicks in. Beschloss contends that the real test will come when Clinton handles his first international crisis. "If Clinton falters in a crisis," Beschloss warns, "he will irrevocably lose the confidence of the military." After a rocky start, Clinton is determined not to let that happen...
...Harvard professors dispute the astrologers' claims and dismiss the use of the stars to predict personality and the future as groundless...