Word: predictably
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, getting smart costs money, as do the growing number of federally mandated improvements, and Detroit is passing on a good part of that cost to consumers. In recent months, average spending on a new car has exceeded $20,000 for the first time ever, and Ford economists predict this cost will rise to $30,000 by 2002. Indeed, the average family now spends more than half its annual income for a new car, compared with only a third in 1974. And the 4.7% average price rise for the new model year is running ahead of the current 2.7% annual...
This spring the two sororities will join together to create Harvard's first "Panhellenic Council," a governing body for the Greek system. Many sorority officers predict that the chapters will continue to grow over the next few years--even though the University refuses to recognize them...
...predict, will get little supportfrom the minority community, because of the waythey treated Ken Reeves," Winters says. "I don'tbelieve any organization has the right to dictateterms such as that to an elected official...
Twenty years ago, that seemed to be changing. Breakthroughs in scientific understanding of plate tectonics--the incessant shifting of continent-size hunks of the earth's crust--spurred hope that major upheavals could be predicted. In Japan polls showed that 50% or more of the public thought they could be. Tokyo even established an Earthquake Assessment Committee of six eminent seismologists to advise the Prime Minister when he ought to issue a public earthquake warning. But in 17 years no such warning has ever been issued, and many experts think the $100 million a year Japan devotes to trying...
...them against the catastrophic thrashing. The nation invested heavily in quake research, quakeproof engineering, quake relief. When Japanese saw the damage done in Los Angeles on Jan. 17, 1994, they smiled to themselves and thought, We would have fared far better. Not only did they believe their seismologists could predict the next Big One, but their leaders gave the impression they would be ready for it when it came. But when the ground shook under Kobe on Jan. 17, 1995, that faith suffered its own Richter shock, and Japanese confidence in their ability to outsmart nature lay in ruins...