Word: predicting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much, too dense," is City Councilor Alice K. Wolf's opinion of all the projects. Those four words sum up hours of argument in public hearings and private dickering sessions. They also predict scores of battles to come...
...Catholics who have challenged the liberal economic doctrines enunciated by American bishops. Simon, who is worth at least $200 million, intends to expand WSGP into other areas, such as venture capital. Says he: "There are a lot of unique opportunities out there." It is not tilting at windmills to predict that Simon will find them...
...Public Citizen Litigation Group, an organization founded by Nader, released a report undermining the idea that Bork practices judicial restraint. "In divisive cases, you can predict Bork's vote with virtual complete accuracy, simply by identifying the parties in the case," charges Alan Morrison, head of the Litigation Group. Reviewing the judge's appeals-court votes in 56 split decisions, the Litigation Group said that Bork consistently found for the Government when it was sued by public-interest groups, consumers or workers. But in eight decisions in which business interests challenged the Executive Branch on regulatory or labor issues, Bork...
...think there's no point in trying to predict what the Iranians are going to do. We simply have a task to do, and we're going to go ahead and do it." So said Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, reflecting what was probably the Reagan Administration's dominant view of the challenge posed by Tehran. But even as the Administration was being assailed for the lack of foresight in its gulf policy, the Pentagon was thinking hard about what to do in the event of an Iranian attack on U.S. warships in the waterway. Beyond that, other questions loomed...
...that the pragmatic Rafsanjani, 53, is locked in a fierce power struggle with the hard-liner Montazeri. Without a clear winner, the two men could wind up sharing authority in an arrangement that would make Montazeri the religious leader and Rafsanjani the political head of state. Most experts predict that a turbulent transition will follow Khomeini's death...