Word: predicting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although Fox said that "it is difficult to predict what the effect of these decisions will be," he added that "it is unlikely that there will be significant net changes in the size of the off-campus population...
...believe it is realistic to predict that instructors and students will continue to find each other personally attractive ...My hope is that the current interest in the topic of sexual harassment...will make all of us more sensitive to the appropriateness of our actions...
...experience in my current role has persuaded me are likely to be pervasive features of the landscape. It will doubtless sound terribly corny and perhaps cynical to wager that human and perhaps cynical to wager that human nature will remain unchanged. But I believe it is realistic to predict that instructors and students will continue to find each other personally attractive and that on occasion some will act on their feelings even though they may be aware that to do so may lead to difficulties. Few of us would wish for an environment in which such feeling could not develop...
...narrowly focused in their fight to get into med school. Students blame the problem on admissions committees, which emphasize grades and test scores over the personal attributes and interests that may make an individual a superior doctor. Notes Utah University Psychologist Calvin Taylor: "Based on test scores, you cannot predict who is going to be the most knowledgeable physician ten years later." Perhaps, says Thomas, "there should be an admissions quota for the solid citizens who rank in the middle of their class...
...Senator Paul Tsongas, a Democrat from Massachusetts, pointed out that there was no consensus behind the Administration's Central American policy in the U.S. either. Iklé nonetheless firmly warned the European panelists that "if you have a succession of 'Cubas' in Central America, then I predict that much of our resources would be diverted from the Atlantic Alliance...