Word: predictible
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Rhetoric aside, if the Chinese were able to predict the temblor-and they are known to have a network of earthquake data stations manned by 10,000 professionals-it was indeed a remarkable achievement. It would mark the first time that a major quake has been predicted and a population warned in time to take precautionary measures...
Despite all of the mayor's campaign gaffes and his administration's scandals, few people are willing to predict that Singer will topple Daley in patronage-padded Chicago. The reasons were succinctly stated by Jack Guthman, a lawyer and Daley stalwart: "The precinct captains work late in the campaign." Indeed, the machine still controls 44 of Chicago's 50 wards. As the primary neared, Daley organization workers were canvassing door-to-door to deliver him enough votes to win the Feb. 25 primary, which would virtually guarantee victory in the April election over a token Republican candidate...
...part because of this sympathy voters have confidence in Muskie. After Richard Nixon, people want a President they can trust and the long lanks. Lincolnesque Muskie ("Trust Muskie" was his slogan in '72) does his best to remind voters of "Honest Abe." Surely, Democrats predict, if the public has a choice in 1976 between a new Lincoln and a used Ford, voters will select the newer model; clearly. Democrats reason, a car that hugs the middle of the road will be more popular than the used Ford brought to us by the man whom no one would trust to sell...
...week some of the urgency of the energy program seemed to diminish as Treasury Secretary William Simon testifying before a Senate subcommittee again emphasized his view that the buildup of petrodollars in the oil-producing nations was not going to be as massive as had been predict ed. Their foreign reserves, said Simon, might reach only $200 billion to $250 billion in 1980, rather than much higher figures that some had forecast. Reacting to higher prices, other countries were buying less oil from the oil states, which in turn were buying more goods and services than had been anticipated. Thus...
...What did Nicholas "Miraculous" Butler, president of Columbia University, predict would "end the slump...