Word: predictible
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...meet, which is only in its second year, starts tonight and runs through Saturday. Coach Stephanie Walsh said yesterday the newness of the meet makes it difficult to predict how the Crimson will fare. "Going by last year's times, some of our best times would win," she said. But Walsh added she expects a faster meet, because more teams will compete this year...
Hutchison said one difficulty in radiation studies occurs because scientists need large numbers of subjects to obtain conclusive results. "We would like to make a mathematical extrapolation to predict the rate of induced cancers, but almost 20,000 workers would have to be tested," he said...
...bill includes a provision that would raise the age at which tenured faculty can be forced to retire from 65 to 70. The proposed legislation, which congressional aides predict will pass both houses of Congress within a month, may well tighten the already glutted market for jobs in academia even further...
Members of TIME'S Board of Economists predict that the Federal Reserve soon will ease its Regulation Q and allow commercial banks to pay higher interest on passbook savings, which can be withdrawn at any time. Regulation Q now sets a ceiling of 5% on them. If that is raised, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board also would have to permit savings and loans to pay more than their present 5½% maximum. Otherwise, savers would be tempted to pull out their money and invest it in Treasury bills and other paper that yield...
Bane said earlier this week that they will "project the trends of the past into the future," in order to predict what families will be like at the end of this century. Trends the speakers will examine include the increasing number of married women joining the work force, the rising divorce rate that results in many kids spending part of childhood with only one parent, and the changing roles of parents. The forum will meet at 8 p.m. in the First Parish Church of Cambridge, 3 Church St., just off the Square...