Word: predictably
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rudenstine said he could not predict the ultimate effects of the advertisement...
What history holds for Tiger I cannot predict, but what happened Sunday, in the eyes of any sports historian, was a benchmark for the ages. --Peter J. Atkinson 17 Handicap
...because many Faculty members have specific objections to the proposal--which would reduce the number of Core requirements from eight to seven and add a quantitative reasoning course requirement--the eventual shape and final acceptance date of the approved legislation are hard to predict...
That is no comfort to doctors and patients. For-profit plans are reacting to the recent slippage in net by negotiating huge mergers. Some analysts predict that the 30-odd managed-care insurers that compete today in California will be concentrated into seven to 10 by 2005. Such giant combines might be able to hike premiums while squeezing spending on patient care even tighter in an effort to rebuild their margins--and continuing to let their chief executives pile up personal fortunes in salary and stock. One survey found that the salaries of HMO chiefs averaged 62% higher than those...
...also know that we are in for a very long day's journey on writer-director Bruce Beresford's endlessly predictable Paradise Road. Do we know that the ship carrying the women and children to safety as Singapore surrenders will be sunk, Red Cross markings or not? Can we predict that the well-spoken Japanese officer some of the survivors meet when they stumble ashore on Sumatra will turn out to be a sadist? When the commandant of the camp where they're interned appears, are we not instantly certain he studied penology with Colonel Saito over on the River...