Word: predictible
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...presidential election is difficult to predict. Rather than wait, ROTC committee members say they will press forward with a recommendation to the Faculty...
Catastrophes may come by surprise, but it is no surprise that they come. Their victims cannot expect the government to prevent them or even always predict them, only to know what to do when they arrive. But to many Floridians last week, it seemed as if each time the government has to learn all over again. The debris that Andrew left behind include a whole set of assumptions about how to handle a natural disaster, who should be giving the orders and who should pick up the bill...
...beat chaotically and monitored the chaos with a computer. The computer, programmed with an understanding of chaotic math, then delivered anti-chaotic pulses. And the heart tissue's beats became nearly regular. Whether the drug would work the same way in living humans is another question, but the researchers predict that "smart pacemakers" might one day correct cardiac problems that are now largely intractable...
...work, they tried another and another. From the standpoint of their individual patients, the physicians could do no better. The consequences for society as a whole, however, are troubling. Stubborn strains of bacteria resistant to many different antibiotics have taken up permanent residence in hospitals around the world. Experts predict that the effectiveness of widely active antibiotic agents such as the cephalosporins, which entered clinical use in 1964, will soon be dramatically reduced...
...Orange Eight were unimpressed, they are not optimistic. They know their neighbors, and Johnson and Thompson predict Bush will recover much of his support in the county. "I can see how that speech could work well for him here," says Johnson. "That and whatever else he comes up with in the next two months," says Thompson. "He's real good at sounding good." As their voices trailed off, the last of a squadron of F-18 fighters flew low over the Pacific outside Thompson's home on its way to a landing at a nearby military base. "They're practicing...