Word: predictably
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Trying to predict winners two months in advance of a Cambridge election is a risky business...
...publicly stated that health-care reform will "boost job creation," a claim that unnerves many of his advisers. What they know -- and what some of them fear Clinton has not been told -- is that the Administration's own preliminary computer-aided studies of the "employment effects" of health reform predict "significant" job losses...
...health- reform plan that is still being refined, and was tested on an econometric model that included "faulty assumptions" about the ways in which employers, workers and health-care providers are likely to respond to health-care reform. Still, these estimates -- and others by independent economists who predict job losses in the 200,000-to-600,000 range -- galvanized Clinton's health-reform advisers last week into a crash program to refine both their computer models and the health-care plan in order to minimize their forecast of unemployment. Says a worried official: "The jobs issue is probably the most...
...years. Even with that burden, McCaw is expected to play a crucial role in AT&T's quest to conquer the emerging field of wireless communications. Almost all calls now originate or terminate on conventional wall-jack telephones (even if they are cordless within the home). But analysts predict that cellular-type phones will gradually replace hard-wired sets. That could mean trouble for local telephone companies, whose monopoly depends on phones remaining tied down to a small area...
...road to science is paved with good intentions. Gregory Aller had volunteered for an experiment designed to study the early years of schizophrenia, the onset of schizophrenic relapse, how to predict relapse, and how to determine who would and who would not be affected by withdrawal of medication. In the short term, that meant Aller would get medicine to make him well. But the long-range realities were harrowing. If he got well, the experiment would follow Greg as medication was withdrawn. If he then became ill, he could fall into the worst stages of psychotic relapse. Last March, Keith...