Word: predictible
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the rhetorical force of her convictions, some Tory colleagues accuse her of inconsistency. Says one prospective Cabinet appointee: "You cannot predict from one set of convictions what her views would be on another series of topics. Often her views do not add up to a single position. She tends to keep her opinions in separate compartments." And, he adds, "there is an element of impetuousness of judgment, which might result from being a woman...
Johnson said that without legal advice he could not predict if it would be feasible to bring a lawsuit against the corporation...
...local models...implies nothing about the 'ultimate nature of reality'." His catastrophe theory purported not to "explain" phenomena but merely to describe them--a crucial distinction the authors, as well as other proponents, refuse to make. If the mark of a science is both to explain and to predict phenomena, and catastrophe theory often does neither, a re-evaluation of its worth may be in order...
Despite Thatcher's well managed, energetic campaign, few experts were willing to predict assuredly that she would become Britain's first woman Prime Minister. There were simply too many imponderables. One unanswered question was whether the unions were in such bad grace with the majority of voters that the open support of bosses like Evans and Weighell for Callaghan would tip the crucial swing vote in favor of the Tories. The country's rapidly growing and increasingly restive black and Asian population could be a significant factor, even though less than half of eligible minority voters...
Many observers predict today's race could be a preview of the title battle in the upcoming Eastern Sprints (May 1-2 New London, Conn.) Certainly Radcliffe and Yale represent the best of the women's heavyweights. And this just may be the first time in three years that Radcliffe has a chance to catch a Bulldog by the tail...