Word: predictably
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year, the thorny question of sanctions is set to come up before the U.N. Security Council Monday. But if Iraqi leaders think their oft-quoted vision of "light at the end of the tunnel" is going to be shared by their 15 adjudicators, they have another think coming. "I predict there will be no agreement to anything being done on sanctions," said British ambassador Sir John Weston. The reason: Richard Butler's claim that UNSCOM has made "virtually no progress" in recent weapons inspections. Even the Russians, who are floating a resolution that would muzzle UNSCOM, balked at the idea...
...miscue by the usually sure-handed Fernandez prompted Yankee radio announcer John Sterling to remark in his amiably pretentious baritone, "Anyone who thinks they can predict baseball is crazy...
...confident to be convincing, Michael Moore's humor is based on the same presumptuous cameraderie that Rush Limbaugh uses at the other end of the political spectrum. Laid off Payday workers (the gods of irony smile on Moore) cantankerously predict disappearing markets, and Moore smiles and nods, marching off to recite such stellar observations to the front desks of corporate America, never stopping to introduce the complexities of these problems to his audience. There is no mention of inflation or of developing labor markets, except from the equally prejudiced mouths of corporate representatives. When talking to PR workers, Moore feigns...
Even though nine spots separate the two teams in he national rankings, tonight's game may predict who will earn a postseason berth...
...rescue us from him? It's a historical tautology that leaders are generated by their times and that great issues produce great men. (One historian, in TIME's ranking of U.S. Presidents, observes that Calvin Coolidge was "unlucky" enough to live in boring times.) And while we can't predict the leaders of the next decade, let alone the century, we can at least glimpse the likely shape of their...