Word: predictably
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...alchemy of derivatives rests on complex mathematical models that predict how markets and derivatives will behave under certain assumptions. The computer models use past market performance to portend the future, but they can't account for the unaccountable: every once in a while an asteroid does strike or countries blow up. These things aren't fully factored in the modeling. Besides, the global economy today is radically different from just five years ago. "Banks have been going out further and further on the risk spectrum, especially the big banks," says Furash. "They are all looking for bigger returns, since they...
...hidden in the dark; despite the thousands of people who swim in its waters every day, it remains fundamentally unchanged. Sometimes it slaps you in the face with a wave, other times it carries you softly in its current, and it is difficult, if not impossible, to predict its particular behavior, certainly not for the novice explorer of less than four years...
...entire world" (according to his epitaph). In one of his obscure quatrains, he prophesied that in 1999, "from the sky there will come a great King of terror." Nobody knows what that was supposed to mean, but in recent decades many would-be prophets have used those lines to predict all manner of cataclysms, from nuclear war to global warming to the end of the world. This suggests that centuries of science have not displaced--and perhaps have even reinforced--people's desire for mystical clues to their fate...
...opportunity arises in announcing seemingly every favorable economic statistic that comes out or in his speeches, starting with one this week at the Detroit Economic Club. But Gore may not always want to be inseparable from the economy. If the Millennium Bug sparks a recession, as various economists predict, Republicans aim to remind voters that the high-tech Veep who popularized the term "information superhighway"will have had eight years in which to tackle the problem. "The Year 2000 problem and the Year 2000 campaign are going to be the same thing," says Jim Lucier of Americans for Tax Reform...
...ability to resist viral infection, and the vicious cycle plays itself out ad infinitum. It's unclear whether the viruses cause the disease or the disease causes the viruses. It is known that Graves' Disease is hereditary to a certain extent, although there is no clear way to predict when it will develop, in whom or under what circumstances...