Word: predicting
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...present system. Many believe that today's electoral process only helps us select the best campaigner with the best advertising director. With this in mind, regular and organized debates are the best showcase for voters, especially debates in the style of argument put forth above. No one can predict who will serve a strong four-year term. But with debates, we will see our candidates think. We will see them not only restate positions, but defend them as they have to for four years. Eloquence is not always the critical factor in debate. Thoughtfulness, pursuit, attitude all contribute...
...events have a way of intruding on the best-managed campaigns, suddenly placing the candidates at the mercy of happenings largely beyond their control. If the economic indicators go up, as they did last week, Carter presumably benefits. Nobody can yet predict what will happen in the Persian Gulf war or who might gain from it. Carter might appear statesmanlike in his role as Commander in Chief, or he might seem inept because of his inability to influence events...
...There's been talk of a strike--it's a serious possibility, though I can't predict how the vote will go," Scaglione said. "I can tell you the membership is angry," he added...
Attempts have already been made to write the Cambridge history of the 1980s. Officials hope to attract large-scale economic develpment, and some predict Cambridge will become an industrial city again. Other problems have not disappeared--rent control seems only to have whetted the appetite of landlords for turning their apartments into condominiums and high-priced cooperatives, and the city is attempting to stabilize the market with legal barriers to change...
McCarthy said the delay set work back "at least three weeks" and added that he could not predict whether the company "can make that...