Word: predicting
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Whatever their feelings about letting Germany remain the playing board in a superpower chess game, the Greens have become a force to be reckoned with. They hold more than 1000 city government seats and are represented in six of the country's II state countries. The latest polls predict the Greens will get 5.5 percent of the vote in a national election in March, enough to put them in the German national parliament, the Bundestag. More significantly, members have turned some of the romantic parts of their party platform into clearer, although still hazy, proposals. Three weeks...
...difficult to determine how critical a role KGB intelligence plays when the Politburo decides which rival political faction to back in a regional conflict. But it may have been because of such careful spadework that the Kremlin was able early on to examine Angola's struggle for independence and predict the winner, a nationalist group called the MPLA...
Whoever lowers the price first, oil experts predict, the average cost of crude oil to U.S. refiners will fall about $2 per bbl., to $30. If the cost falls below that level, oil companies will probably begin to buy aggressively, and the price will stabilize. Theoretically, a $2 reduction in the crude price could mean about a 5? drop in the price of a gallon of gasoline. Because of sluggish demand, gas prices have already been drifting down from an average of $1.29 per gal. a year ago to $1.18 per gal. now. At a few stations in some areas...
Wright: I don't believe that economic recovery is like the weather. I don't thing you can just predict from meterological data. I think you must influence them. The chances therefore depend upon the policies we follow. We cannot just sit back and wait for it to happen nor can we continue the policies that have given us the recession...
...effectively compete with nearby white universities for revenues in lucrative cable TV markets. It is either a profound irony or a travesty that SAT sores will be used to exclude Black males from collegiate athletic competition. They are that segment of the population for which the SAT's predict academic performance least efficiently...