Word: predictably
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suspect, thought I do not know, that several of the columns on this page predict that the key issue of the coming semester will involve ideological confrontations of one sort or another. Although apolitical in theory, universities have become ever more welcoming to ideological concerns...
Besides, a simple astronomical model would predict smooth and gradual climate transitions -- the opposite of what really happens. The last Ice Age was in full retreat about 13,000 years ago when temperatures suddenly reversed and began heading lower again. They stayed low for 1,000 years, an episode known as the Younger Dryas period. The periodic "spikes" of warmer weather that have interrupted ice ages and the cold weather that often came on suddenly in the last interglacial period are also impossible to explain with astronomy. And so is the astonishingly rapid changeover from warm to cold...
...Caltech geologist Kerry Sieh, for one, is worried that the violent release of energy may have adversely affected the Elysian Park system, a deeply buried network of thrust faults directly under Los Angeles. Parts of this system have lain dormant, Sieh says, "since before Abraham." But he cannot predict when the faults might awaken...
...only predict that a type of earthquakewill occur in your area," said Ekstrom...
Wholesale prices edged up a negligible 0.2% last year, and consumer prices posted the smallest gain in seven years -- only 2.7%. Analysts predict continued low inflation in 1994. Meanwhile, spurred on by purchases of cars and home-related goods, retail sales last year soared 6.2%, the biggest annual advance since...