Word: predictably
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last year's event is any indicator, hundreds of students will flock to the Media Jobs and Internship Fair today. I predict that the Science Center will be packed tighter than it would be for any class. Journalism and the arts--both fields where the best work comes from people who landed there almost by mistake--will miraculously appear as yet another "career path," as straightforward as going to work for a bank...
...building their own detectors out of off-the-shelf parts and barely scraping by on the $1 million or so that NASA contributes annually to the total effort. Their goal is to identify and determine the orbits of the still undiscovered "near Earth" asteroids. That would enable them to predict, sometimes many years in advance, the possibility of a disastrous encounter. Those predictions and knowledge gained from missions like Clementine II would give Earth's defenders time to mount the appropriate defense, using missiles to deflect or destroy a threatening intruder...
...through 12. They were selected in part because middle schools are an especially tough test for educators who have to swim upstream against the changes of adolescence and the customary disappearance of parental involvement at that stage. These three have also succeeded despite a profile that seems to predict failure or mediocrity: a majority of minority students, limited resources and membership in a large school system. They, and thousands of other outstanding public schools we might have mentioned, are the good news in American education...
...course, a grand isn't chump change for most people in society, but it's a lot better than the good ol' monopoly pricing we've seen in the PC's lifetime. And experts predict that prices could plummet again soon, perhaps to the $500 point in a matter of years. Whatever you think of Microsoft and Intel's hegemony over the old market, wish the new chip-makers luck; cheaper computers are in everyone's interest...
...society in love with stocks, we've never quite been here, so no one can be sure what to expect. When pushed, market veterans liken today's fervor to 1929 or 1968, both bull-market peaks. Because of key differences between now and those periods, however, few predict imminent disaster. But it's worth noting that after the '29 crash the S&P 500, excluding dividends, didn't fully recover for 25 years. And the '68 peak was part of a sideways market that lasted 18 years. Some believe a long dry spell like the one after the '68 bust...