Word: predicting
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...question to kill or not to kill is seldom a matter of how much hunting can be permitted without threatening the well-being of a species. Wildlife biologists can accurately predict the effect of a hunting season on a wildlife population. Regulated sport hunting has never threatened any wildlife species in this country. The rising game-animal population in the face of increased hunting attests to this. It is another question whether it is right to hunt a docile animal like the moose. That decision is a matter of personal ethics best left to the individual...
...compound the confusion, the networks varied widely on when they were ready to predict a particular outcome. Indeed, NBC lurched into proclaiming the re-election of Republican Governor James Thompson of Illinois barely an hour after the polls closed; ABC and CBS prudently held off all night, and the race was not settled for Thompson until week's end. In at least one contest, all three networks were wrong: they labeled Representative John Hiler, an Indiana Republican, the loser of a seat he ended up keeping...
...dean would not predict whether the Faculty would necessarily tighten the pass/fail rules, if it did move to change them. But the overwhelming sentiment about the rules expressed at Monday's Faculty meeting was intense disapproval...
Bette Midler's new film, Jinxed, like countless others churned out every year belongs in this latter heap not really had, just completely for gettable Quick as you can say, "Network Television Predict, it will probably make its final bow as a Wednesday Night Movie of the Week. The problem is, it belonged on the tube in the first place Like too many other movies today, Jinsed resembles nothing so much as the average T.V. movie, smoothly made, predictable, bland, and incapable of arousing any interest or excitement whatsoever...
Area politicians predict that the lack of a hotly contested at the state on local level, will keep turnout rather low about 62 percent compared with 72 percent in 1978 the last gubernatorial election...