Word: predictably
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...know that the academic credential for the 10,000 or so qualified applicants, except for those of the small group of exceptionally promising potential scholars, are much less likely to predict truly unusual academic accomplishments. There is relatively little difference over the four years in the grades achieved by those with SAT scores that differed by 50 or 100 points or more. Most students (well over 90 percent) will graduate and the substantial majority will graduate with honors grades...
...President's worst tendencies, which is to think that if you concentrate on policy and do the right thing, virtue will be rewarded. Well, the press and the Democrats aren't going to see it that way." By the end of the year, White House sources predict, a Bush re-election committee will be formed, possibly under the leadership of Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher or businessman Fred Malek. As if to underscore how the election changed the President's outlook, Bush and Sununu late last week lunched at the White House with some of his old political allies, including former...
...combined support for the other four presidential campaigners had also risen -- from 5% to 14% in less than a month -- and polls showed that nearly one-third of the electorate was undecided. "It is very difficult to predict the outcome," says Professor Adam Bromke of the Polish Academy of Sciences. "All that seems certain is that no candidate will get the 50% required for a first-round victory...
...well focused, 2) plans that shift power from localities to state capitals are a hard sell, and 3) a recession is a bad time to ask for money. The very strategy of favoring ballot proposals over the horse trading of legislation may also bear re-examining. "I don't predict the beginning of some trend that makes environmental initiatives more difficult to achieve," insists Jim Maddy, executive director of the League of Conservation Voters in Washington. Yet last week's results hardly suggested that the task was becoming easier...
Yeltsin and his aides predict that Gorbachev's halfway measures will fail, forcing the Soviet President to adopt the 500-day plan after all. But for the moment the controversy is coming close to open economic war. The Russian parliament last week passed a law placing all property in Russian territory, except that belonging to the Soviet military or the KGB, under its control. Gorbachev had earlier got the Supreme Soviet to grant him power to fire the heads of businesses that refuse to obey orders from the central government. It remains to be seen which jurisdiction can make...