Word: predictably
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Iran- contra investigation. The boyish-looking, soft-spoken Gates, during two years as first lieutenant to retiring CIA Director William Webster and two more as Deputy National Security Adviser to Bush, has assiduously cultivated key Senators. Though some Democrats vow to re-examine Gates' Iran-contra role, most Senators predict that he will be confirmed this time, barring some unexpected new evidence of wrongdoing. "Bob Gates was an exceptional deputy to Webster, an honest liaison to the congressional committees and an invaluable aide to the President in the White House," says Senator David Boren, the Oklahoma Democrat who chairs...
...interests of the Soviet Union and the U.S. are completely identical. This is the problem of stability in the Soviet Union. If we manage to control our domestic situation, & we can count on good Soviet-American relations. If our country should plunge into anarchy, it will be hard to predict the consequences and how they will affect our relations...
...increase in the defense budget. At the same time, the government's budget deficit for the first three months of 1991 reached 26.9 billion rubles -- its highest quarterly loss ever -- and the country's total production fell 9%. The downward spiral is picking up speed, and some Western experts predict that the defense budget will be cut by a third over the next four years...
...coastal cities as Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, which are teeming with favelas, or slums. "That would be disastrous," says Afonso Infurna Jr., vice president of the Brazilian commission. "Health and hygiene conditions are already poor, and the disease could spread rapidly." Although Infurna and other commission officials predict they will contain the infection, they admit that the cost of treating a full-scale epidemic would be high -- on the order of $600 million...
...predict this will be the most frustrating legislative session in 30 or 40 years," said Sen. Robert A. Havern '72 (D-Arlington...