Word: predictably
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...really answer these questions, I think, because no one really knows what chemistry is or how to predict it; they just know it when they...
...million seniors who have celebrated their 85th birthday already constitute the fastest-growing segment of the population. The U.S. Census Bureau projects that by 2030, this group, inelegantly dubbed the old-old, will number 9 million, then will swell to 19 million in the following two decades. (Other demographers predict as many as 48 million.) Moreover, while most experts cap average life expectancy at around 85, a research team in Denmark maintains that America's current crop of newborns will live on average to 100. "It will be 80 years before they are 80," says Danish researcher James Vaupel...
...facilities. But the efforts are limited at best, and governments in Africa, the Far East and South America are not always receptive to international intervention. Ideally, says Morse, doctors and public-health officials would love to be able to cure every disease they encounter or, failing that, to predict where and when the next outbreak will take place. "The current system is a reactive one," he admits. "Our ability for prediction will remain limited for quite some time...
...safe to predict that none of the thousands of journalists in Chicago this week to witness the renomination of Bill Clinton will choose that particular metaphor, or anything like it, to describe this year's incumbent President. Nor will anyone try to make the case--with a straight face--that Americans in general are particularly "fond" of their leader. Clinton faces a sullen press corps, a larger public that tolerates him at best, and a sizable opposition that despises him with extraordinary passion. Meanwhile, he lacks even a medium-size cadre of genuine enthusiasts. He doesn't have a single...
...plane scheming and plotting as Dick," says media consultant Goodman. But after a campaign he compares with "climbing Everest," what other race could get his juices flowing? Al Gore's in 2000? Though a host of Republicans have vowed not to let him back into the G.O.P., some predict he'll wind up next to Trent Lott, the most interesting Republican around. And even if he does bow out, the outside-the-box strategy he and Clinton popularized will surely be used by others...