Word: predictible
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Americans and a German were also rewarded with the Nobel Prize in Economics using game strategy -- employed in, say, chess and poker -- to predict the market. The winners: John C. Harsanyi, a retired professor from the University of California at Berkeley; John F. Nash, a mathematician at Princeton University; and Reinhard Selten of the University of Bonn...
...drive up the negatives of their opponents -- once they get out of Washington to campaign at the end of this week. Those with seniority can remind constituents of the pork-barrel spending, the tax loopholes and other goodies they have delivered for big employers in the district. Democratic strategists predict that the threat of a Republican takeover of Congress -- and of cuts in programs popular not only with the poor but also with the middle classes -- will help mobilize their force. "Do the Republicans want to take on seniors? Labor? Veterans? Farmers? Social Security recipients and all the rest?" asks...
...officials were racing this evening toward a trade deal that could open Japanese markets to U.S. goods. But the clock was ticking fast toward a midnight deadline when tough American sanctions kick in. The chief negotiators -- U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor and Japanese Foreign Minister Yohei Kono -- refused to predict the outcome. Subordinates expected they'd probably see eye-to-eye on several areas before sunup, but not on the biggest sore spot: auto manufacturing. TIME Washington correspondent Adam Zagorin says a U.S. move toward partial sanctions will probably spark "an irritated, if measured" Japanese response, followed by months...
...voter turnout means that election results may be difficult to predict, rendering polls meaningless, said David M. Denehy, a spokesperson for U.S. Senate candidate John R. Lakian...
...financially no-contest between the telephone and cable combatants. Thanks to their local phone monopolies, each Baby Bell rakes in more revenues in a year than does the entire cable-TV industry. That, plus the phone companies' long experience with two-way communications, has led some experts to predict that cable firms will have to merge or form joint ventures with the Bells, or with a giant like AT&T, to survive in the interactive era. Cable leaders who have tried this include John Malone, chairman of Tele-Communications Inc., the No. 1 U.S. cable company, whose proposed merger with...