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Meanwhile, library officials are preparing for the short-term adjustments that will inevitably result as students and faculty begin using the new terminals. They say there is no way to predict how many people will use the newly installed computers or how the technology will affect the research habits of the community as a whole...
Meanwhile, library officials are preparing for the short-term adjustments that will inevitably result as students and faculty begin using the new terminals. They say there is no way to predict how many people will use the newly installed computers or how the technology will affect the research habits of the community as a whole...
...could indeed lose them. In fact, at least two of Bush's top advisers predict -- strictly off the record and perhaps in a sly effort to lower expectations -- that he will. But in the past two months, Dukakis' once commanding lead in the California polls has disappeared, shrinking from 16 points to a statistically meaningless 1 point. One reason: several of the social issues Bush has been hammering on (opposition to new taxes and gun control, approval of the death penalty) have already been endorsed overwhelmingly by California voters in recent ballot initiatives. Republicans have greatly increased their registration...
Political polls, in general, should be presented to the public with more warnings than cigarette packs. Besides the standard notice about potential sampling error, surveys can be skewed by ephemeral news flurries. Further, they cannot predict election results; "horse-race" studies merely provide a snapshot of voter sentiment at one instant in a long campaign. But even that modest claim is shaky in the tumult of Campaign '88. The profusion of polls this summer resembles not so much an album of still photographs as a movie of Keystone Kops at their most kinetic. "Hardly an hour goes by without...
Labor experts said that past cases concerning list-keeping can be interpreted in several ways, making it impossible to predict the NLRB-appointed judge's decision...