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...shot up 25% since the early 1800s, the average global temperature has risen by no more than 0.5 degrees C (1.1 degrees F), and even that measurement is suspect. Moreover, the rise has been uneven. From about 1940 to 1970, a cooling period inspired some forecasters to predict a return of the ice ages...
...thinking about. American Government officials shudder when they do so. They would prefer to rely on traditional diplomacy aimed at defusing regional tensions and restricting the proliferation of nuclear technology. The trouble is, the Iraqi weapons program is moving along much more briskly than the peace process. Some experts predict that Saddam will achieve his heart's desire within three years. When that happens, the U.S. President had better have something more to say than "Well, we tried...
...wife would certainly say that. I took the bonus in stock to encourage other employees to do the same. At least nobody could accuse me of having some prophet's ability to predict the coming crisis...
...Yitzhak Shamir believes that Israel should include the West Bank captured from the Arabs in 1967 -- and still heavily populated by Arabs in 1990. Labor's Shimon Peres believes in trading land for peace. The territory traded would become part of a Palestinian "entity," a cryptogram that many predict will someday be decoded to mean a Palestinian state. While opposing that particular outcome, Labor is at least willing to begin negotiating with the Palestinians and see where the process leads. Likud seems not to be, which is why Shamir did everything he could as Prime Minister to delay the opening...
Peterson says that such differences are difficult to resolve because undergraduate demand is hard to predict--especially when picking graduate students who will stay with the department for six or seven years...