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...simply beating their chests, the pilots have caused serious damage by grounding most flights of the tournament's official carrier. While a compromise is reportedly within sight, the situation remains unpredictable. "Everyone wants a resolution before next week when the tournament begins," says Crumley, "but it's hard to predict the behavior of people who are capable of such cynicism -- after all, these pilots are among the best-paid in the world...
...department] can recommend someone for tenure, but, as we saw in the Masten case, it cannot possibly predict how likely the person is actually to get tenure," says Damrosch, who is also Bernbaum professor of literature...
While the number of similar candidates in the 28th makes the race hard to predict, the 27th district is significantly tighter...
...alchemy of derivatives rests on complex mathematical models that predict how markets and derivatives will behave under certain assumptions. The computer models use past market performance to portend the future, but they can't account for the unaccountable: every once in a while an asteroid does strike or countries blow up. These things aren't fully factored in the modeling. Besides, the global economy today is radically different from just five years ago. "Banks have been going out further and further on the risk spectrum, especially the big banks," says Furash. "They are all looking for bigger returns, since they...
...hidden in the dark; despite the thousands of people who swim in its waters every day, it remains fundamentally unchanged. Sometimes it slaps you in the face with a wave, other times it carries you softly in its current, and it is difficult, if not impossible, to predict its particular behavior, certainly not for the novice explorer of less than four years...