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Maybe. Because so many factors lead individuals to commit crime, it is extremely difficult to predict trends. For instance, the crime rate usually slides during good economic times. But that isn't always true, and in any event, no one knows when or even if the Wall Street party will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will The Crime Rate Keep Falling? | 2/21/2000 | See Source »

...weeks in which he'll meet with top officials in such oil-producing states as Mexico, Norway, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. "This is an increasingly visible problem, and it's important to remember that we're in an election year," says TIME correspondent Andrew Zagorin. While economists don't predict that the high oil prices alone could drive inflation in the U.S., it could certainly have an impact on consumer behavior - and thus potentially slow down the high-revving American economy. Auto industry analysts are already pointing to oil prices as a partial culprit in the recent drop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why There's Action to Halt Oil Price Gusher | 2/16/2000 | See Source »

...polls and excuses. He reassured his tiny inner circle that no heads would roll, but he wanted some answers: "What the hell happened?" He was stunned by the size of his loss--and furious that his team not only had failed to prevent it but had failed even to predict it. As she thought about it the next morning, communications chief Karen Hughes admitted she should have known something was wrong when she heard there were more out-of-state volunteers in the Bush New Hampshire operation than in-state volunteers. "I should have trusted my instincts," she said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: McCain's Moment | 2/14/2000 | See Source »

Council members from both sides say a number of factors--including the votes of new members chosen in council special elections, the vocal opposition to impeachment on the part of several campus organizations and the secret ballot voting mechanism--will make the outcome virtually impossible to predict...

Author: By Parker R. Conrad, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Close Vote Expected on Burton Removal | 2/11/2000 | See Source »

...could predict the future of WWF based on your knowledge of trends of stage violence in the past, what would...

Author: By David Kornhaber, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wrestling 101: Oh, the humanity! | 2/11/2000 | See Source »

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