Word: predictably
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Early in the semester I told your reporter that most of my students were receiving grades in the A-/B+range. contrary to The Crimson's assertion I did not predict that this would be the ultimate disposition of the grades. Harvard Undergraduates are relative. adept at writing two page response papers and--thanks, no doubt, to the Expository Writing Program--most students in my section have acquired this skill. But the real trick is to demonstrate a comprehensive grasp of the course material...
...critics suggest that it will empower not only "legitimate" minorities, but (in a seven-seat election) any fringe dweller who can enthrall 12% of the voters -- the David Dukes as well as the Bobby Agees. Even without kooks, they fear it will create mosaic governments paralyzed by factionalism. Others predict that once minority members realize cumulative systems provide an automatic "safe seat," numerous candidates will split the vote, and the seat will disappear. Exactly that happened last year in Centre, a small town about 100 miles away, which also tried cumulativism: a black made the city council...
...court to new alignments on the most divisive issues coming its way, including gays in the military, the right to die and how to adjust the line between church and state. And after those? For Presidents, the most intractable problem of choosing court nominees is that no one can predict what issues will grip the court in years to come. Abraham Lincoln put five men on the court, all chosen to support his policies during the Civil War. All of them did. But after his death, some of them were still serving on the court when a rapidly industrializing nation...
...beginning to see the creativity ofolder women today," Friedan said. "We cannot beginto predict now what will continue to grow anddevelop out of people who live past 65, past 70,past...
Song also said Chinese scientists predict that, as a result of ongoing population control efforts, population will continue to increase for the next 30 years, but should stabilize at 1.6 billion people by the middle of the next century...