Word: predictably
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This week the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is expected to announce whether it will list the northern spotted owl as a threatened species. If the owl is listed, as many predict, the Government will be required by the Endangered Species Act to protect the bird. And if a preservation plan advocated by biologists is put into effect, it could be one of the most sweeping environmental actions ever undertaken. Federal and state agencies say the plan, fully carried out, would set aside an additional 3 million acres of forests. That would slash by more than one-third timber production...
These new assets may also produce great headaches for Israeli society. Although construction has begun on 70,000 apartments, Israel's government economists predict a shortage of 29,000 housing units by the end of the year. Moreover, with unemployment already running at 9.3%, Israel is ill-prepared to find work for all the immigrants. In the sciences alone, some 60,000 Soviets are expected to arrive within the next three years. Israeli universities can make room for perhaps 120 of them. Even the country's high-tech firms cannot absorb so many. "We've got 2,000 resumes...
...ubiquity of information technologies has also exposed their limitations. Businesses and policymakers, awash in data and images, have discovered that information is not useful without expertise. With the most sophisticated intelligence-gathering tools at its disposal, the CIA could not accurately portray the disarray of the Soviet economy or predict the collapse of communism. Instead of making people redundant, the high-tech economy has only underscored the irreplaceable contributions of human knowledge and common sense...
...while administrators predict that the University is unlikely to alter its current stance on South Africa, activists say that Bok's successor might be better disposed to address their concerns...
When the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) captured its first City Council majority in 17 years this November, backers of the liberal coalition were quick to predict the beginning of a new era in city politics...