Word: predictably
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Though the CIA has had its setbacks in the region--it failed to predict the Shah's 1979 fall in Iran and Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990--the agency retains a mystique in the Arab world. "For Arafat, it's a big deal to be dealing with the head of the CIA," says a senior State Department official. The P.L.O. chairman and Tenet have taken pains to cultivate each other. During Tenet's first visit to the West Bank in 1996, Arafat arranged for Tenet, who is Greek Orthodox, to tour Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, guided...
Real pessimists predict a three-year bloodbath, especially if upper-crust vacationers don't show up in the predicted numbers, leaving half-empty high-cost hotels. The Strip's bread-and-butter visitor isn't likely to trade up to $150-a-night rooms from $49 ones, even if there's a mint on the pillow. Hilton chief Bollenbach (who is also on the board at Time Warner, the parent company of TIME) is predicting 18 months of bruising battles, with older, smaller properties taking a hit from big outfits like...
...suffering from a head injury which makes the course of his recovery difficult to predict," wrote Eugene C. McAfee in an e-mail message to House residents late last night...
...esteem but most likely won't "snap" again as he did when he bit Evander Holyfield's ears in a June 1997 title fight, according to a psychiatric report prepared for the Nevada Athletic Commission and released yesterday. It concludes by saying that while there is no way to predict future behavior, doctors believe Tyson is "mentally fit to return to boxing, to comply with the rules and regulations, and to do so without repetition of June...
What about the chances of a genuine recession? None of the economists on TIME's board would flatly predict one, but none would rule it out either. If the "Asian financial flu" infects Latin America and Canada, if a renewed plunge in U.S. stock prices scares consumers into slashing their spending, and if the Federal Reserve Board fails to make deep enough cuts in interest rates--why, then, a growth recession could turn into the real thing...