Word: predicting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hawking's father was a scientist too, a biologist who researched tropical diseases. Although his father encouraged him to pursue biology and medicine. Hawking avoided these fields because he thought they were too impercise. If he had been able to predict the explosion in molecular biology, however, the physicist says he might have chosen that route since it is "one of the most exciting fields in science today...
Legislators on the committee were unwitting to predict whether the measure will pass the legislature. The legislature has confidently supported some form of death penalty legislation throughout the decade, it was thwarted once by a gubernatorial veto, and twice by the Supreme Judician Court. The legislature voted in 1980 by an overwhelming majority to support the constitutional amendment...
Ashton would not predict what effect the recent incidents will have or Arboretum attendance. "We don't get a lot of negative calls but there is always an undercurrent of rumor...
...director of publicity for Bantam: "For many people in their 20s and 30s, the quality trade paperback has become their hardback." Literary Agent Scott Meredith sees the flagging economy as the reason. Says he: "Few people today can walk into a store and casually buy ten books." Industry experts predict that by 1990 more than half of all books will originate in soft-cover-a situation that prevails in Europe today. And many of the hard-cover editions will be mere tokens, published in small amounts for libraries, for reviewers who shun paperbacks-and as a boost for authors...
...nounced that it was getting out of the credit-card business altogether. After April 15, Arco gas stations will accept neither its own blue-and-gray cards, which are held by more than 3 million people, nor those of Visa, American Express or other credit companies. Industry experts predict that other big gasoline retailers will eventually drop out of or cut back on the credit business. The most widely held cards now used are those of Amoco (7 million) and Exxon (6.5 million...