Word: predictably
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though it is hard to predict the future trends in gender ratios. Hundert says he believes they will probably continue to represent the general population. Also, women at higher medical positions will continue to encourage more women to enter the field...
...idea of being able to predict which salesmen are most likely to prosper was not an abstraction for Metropolitan Life, which in the mid-'80s was hiring 5,000 salespeople a year and training them at a cost of more than $30,000 each. Half quit the first year, and four out of five within four years. The reason: selling life insurance involves having the door slammed in your face over and over again. Was it possible to identify which people would be better at handling frustration and take each refusal as a challenge rather than a setback...
Once the scientists factored in aerosols, their models began looking more like the real world. The improved performance of the simulations was demonstrated in 1991, when they successfully predicted temperature changes in the aftermath of the massive Mount Pinatubo eruption in the Philippines. A number of studies since have added to the scientists' confidence that they finally know what they're talking about--and can predict what may happen if greenhouse gases continue to be released into the atmosphere unchecked. Just last week, a report appeared in Nature that firmly ties an increase in the severity of U.S. rainstorms...
...Michael delivers a manuscript, we are all struck by how much we are made to think, and how much information there is, and how well researched it is. I'm always learning something every time I work with Michael." Notes Lynn Nesbit, his longtime literary agent: "You can never predict with Michael, because his range of interests is so broad. You can't characterize him. He writes out of real passion about a subject that he's currently thinking about...
...Kellerman, a former vice president for the Times Mirror Center, which he noted was the only organization to predict the results of the 1994 election correctly, will use surveys and focus groups to gage not just the public's view of the press, but the press' view of itself, he said...