Word: predictably
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Western diplomats believed that the process would wither the Khmer Rouge's power. What they failed to predict was the communists' ability to finance their own arms purchases from the sale of timber and gems in areas they control along the border with Thailand, which with Thai assistance they have savagely pillaged at great cost to the environment. The U.N. Security Council has imposed sanctions on the Khmer Rouge, to little avail...
Finally a bit of good news: some astronomers have revised calculations on Swift-Tuttle, and predict that the big comet will breeze by us at a comfortable 15 million-mile distance. Of course, there is always the possibility that some other uncharted space rock may come crashing through the atmosphere. Best keep...
...early in the new president's tenure to predict how a film called Carey would play. But the current boss has at least one trait in common with Hoffa: a ferocious and relentless tendency to attack the government for trying to clean up the union. When Carey was elected a year ago on a promise to rid the union of organized crime, federal agents and prosecutors were overjoyed by the underdog's surprise victory. Now they wonder if their confidence was misplaced. "He definitely has not been a corruption fighter so far," says Edward Ferguson, who recently served...
...least until she is in her 30s. The wise men who hover over her career, like Barenboim and Levine, hope she sticks to her resolve. The fact is that, lovely as her voice is, it is not large. But 26 is very young. It is nearly impossible to predict how a voice will develop; the supreme Wagnerian Kirsten Flagstad sang operetta in her 20s. "You must never force," Bartoli insists. "The test is after the concert: Is the voice still fresh so that you could go on and on?" She certainly passed the test with Levine. When she auditioned...
...Seattle can start worrying too. Five studies published in Science describe a previously undiscovered fault there, along with evidence that the area was rocked by one or more major earthquakes within the past two millenniums. Alas, it's too soon to predict when the next biggie will hit the Pacific Northwest...