Word: predicted
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...president to try to reform health care, but he plans to be the last. This will not be the case. Regardless of what Obama is able to achieve today, the U.S. will undergo more health-care reform in the future, when evolving circumstances will require policies that we cannot predict now. As a result, there must be reform in the future in order to keep up with changes in how we receive health care. You cannot say the same for climate-change policy. If we fail to act now, there is substantial scientific evidence that we may not get another...
...Strait of Taiwan was long one of the world's flash points, with the potential to draw even the U.S. into conflict. It's hard to predict the future China and Taiwan have with each other, but it's easy to imagine, given all the progress that has occurred, that war is no longer a possibility. That's something to be thankful for - and something truly deserving of a Dalai Lama's blessing...
When they are little, they are cute, but by the time they reach early adolescence, they are already as strong as a human, and you cannot predict what will trigger a sudden anger or rage. The Jane Goodall Institute is fighting very hard for legislation that will prohibit people from owning other primates as pets. Very rarely can they give them a good life...
...only we had known that Mr. Kane rose to prominence in Yale's registrar's office by spearheading its transition to the then-unknown "interweb," we would have been able to predict the inevitable disappearance of the Tolstoy-sized course catalog that we've enjoyed for so long. Kane piloted a move to online course selection at Yale before doing the same at Harvard...
...students started shopping, classes were packed all around—often overflowing into hallways—with a disproportionate number of these courses counting toward the Core Curriculum. Though College administrators were able to predict that General Education classes would be large since freshmen have just one "U.S. in the World" class to look at this fall, they may have forgotten that there are still all those sophomores, juniors, and seniors who are under a curriculum that has already "shuffled off its mortal coil," in English professor James Simpson's words over a year...