Word: predictably
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only now really beginning to feel that perestroika is a revolution. That is why some people are beginning to panic. They shout about anarchy; they predict chaos, war, total ruin and so on. They're intellectually unprepared for the kind of major changes that are objectively necessary. That's one reason I have recently stressed the role in perestroika of science and education. They can help us change the mentality of society and free ourselves from the grip of outdated, sometimes fundamentally erroneous concepts of economics, politics, culture, morality and philosophy. I'm thinking, for example, about old egalitarian principles...
Conservative columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak predict that Finley, whose work has been supported in the past by three NEA grants ($22,000 in total awards), will be the next target of outrage -- and opportunity -- for enemies of the endowment's funding. Finley, the columnists warned, could become "the Mapplethorpe case of 1990" if her latest request for support is approved. Last week that suggestion of scandal was enough to shake the National Council on the Arts, the beleaguered body that oversees grants recommended by NEA panels. The council voted to postpone until August its decision on all grant...
Some professors and administrators speculatedthat the logical choice for a new Harvardpresident is normally the dean of the Faculty. Butsince Spence is leaving for Stanford, theselection was hard to predict, they said...
...Harvard, about one million dollars per year. That's how much money some experts predict the University will make in royalties from its new licensing program...
...there a solution to alien-smuggling that won't bleed taxpayers? Only one: Let more aliens in. Illegals now make up as much as 6% of the U.S. work force. Some immigration experts, most notably Julian Simon, a professor of business at the University of Maryland, predict that as the baby boomers age and the birthrate falls, the labor market will tighten and "employers will cry out for workers." The Kennedy-Simpson bill being considered by the House sets an annual "flexible" cap of about 630,000 legal immigrants per year, far less than the U.S. economy could absorb. Moreover...