Word: predicting
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University officials are "discussing the issue internally" at the moment, Lewis A. Armistead, acting assistant vice-president for government and community affairs, said yesterday, declining to predict how long the process will take...
Outside the capital, the rice paddies and cornfields along Route 4 had a deceptively lush look; the rainy season had just ended. Provincial officials predict that the harvest from the crop that was planted in June will be 70% of normal; but independent estimates are that throughout the country, the so-called short season may yield only a fifth of what is normally reaped. In the entire province, there is only one doctor, a Vietnamese "adviser." Some 500 patients are crammed into the hospital in Kompong Speu, which has only 200 beds. The facility has no laboratory to analyze blood...
...only is the VAT regressive--it is also very complicated. In Europe it has earned a reputation for simplicity only because it replaced a vastly more complex system of business turnover taxes. But in the United States experts predict that the VAT will force businessmen to spend much more time keeping their ledgers in order. By creating more paperwork, the VAT may push marginally profitable enterprises out of business...
...translation of the exam and analyses of the subject areas are available from the U.S. Office of Education (USOE), which recently published "The 1978 National College Entrance Exam in the People's Republic of China," which insiders predict will soon be a major motion picture...
Hansen said ethanol currently costs about $1.61 a gallon, but that experts working on increasing the efficienty of the distillation process predict the cost will eventually be 85 cents a gallon or lower...