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Qualifications are used most often to predict the probable outcome of the race. A general rule is that the winner will come from the first two rows in qualifying. The reasoning is that unless a crew has good enough control to qualify the car with a fast time on the first weekend of trials, they won't be able to field a car that is capable of lasting 500 miles at racing speeds. Fast qualifiers on the second weekend usually don't finish, even if they lead the race at some point. The past decade at Indy bears this...
Since the military presently includes almost 3.5 million men, it is hard to understand how the commission could predict an end to the draft by 1971. especially with pay increases calculated to maintain a force of only 2.5 million. Even earlier this year. when the commission's report was completed, significant reductions in the size of the military seemed unlikely in the near future...
...hard to predict the outcome of this morning's meeting. Within the main body of striking employees, there is by no means a consensus about what steps should be taken, or what demands should be made. The main body-about 350 strong-consists primarily of white collar workers from separate offices and schools, and from the University library system...
This spring, from the performances of both boats, it seems impossible to predict a victory this afternoon with any degree of accuracy. Penn, as usual, has been superb, ripping Princeton and Columbia by two lengths, and breezing past Yale by three...
...just a matter of things falling our way in a lot of events that were hard to predict beforehand." McCurdy said after his team had wrapped up its second dual victory against no defeats...