Word: predictably
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...charcoal-gray suit. He took immediate action last week, firing three department chiefs and threatening that more heads will roll unless changes are made. Still, some are skeptical of his ability to tackle a job akin to fixing a plane while flying it. "I can't predict the outcome, but I can predict the effort," Brimmer says. "It will be done...
...believe, overfishing of sharks off Australia and Tasmania years ago led to an explosion in the octopus population and a subsequent decline of the spiny-lobster fishery. Declining numbers of hammerhead sharks off the Florida panhandle may have allowed stingrays to reach record numbers there. "It's impossible to predict the implications of removing sharks from the food chain, but it could be disastrous," says shark specialist Sonja Fordham of the Center for Marine Conservation in Washington...
What say, fans of romantic comedy? Can you accept the slightly silly place Picture Perfect is coming from? Can you predict the blissful place it's heading? Of course you can. What may surprise you--given the desperate energies being applied to this genre these days--is the film's confident, unforced air. Some of that derives from Aniston's performance, a nicely judged blend of intelligence and inexperience, briskness and softness. She is, as she proves every week on Friends, an actress who serenely lets the comedy come to her instead of frantically searching for it. Director...
Although the handover will most certainly produce changes and unfold new realities, one thing is easy to predict: the people of Hong Kong, perhaps the territory's most valuable and reliable asset, will not change and won't lose their unique energy, courage and vision for a bright tomorrow. And in the eyes of many, this might be enough to assure Hong Kong's future success. In the city of Lo Wu, at the border with China, the ultramodern train station is packed with masses of Chinese from the territory going to the mainland for a weekend or a short...
While the Handover will certainly unfold new realities, one thing is easy to predict: the people of Hong Kong, the country's most valuable asset, will not change and will not lose their unique energy...