Word: predicting
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...excellent and provocative study of Joe Tsien and his colleagues will, one may safely predict, be widely misread in the false light of this age-old hope--combined with some equally age-old fallacies of human reasoning...
...years of running money professionally, I always marveled at how few people could predict the direction of the next point or two. Irrational factors, chance motions and temporary buy-and-sell imbalances are almost impossible to forecast...
While it may be too early to accurately predict the political consequences of the devastating natural disaster that hit Turkey last week, the country's leaders are bracing for a firestorm of dissatisfaction. Calls for the resignation of cabinet ministers look set to snowball, and the more efficient relief effort in regions run by the opposition Islamic Virtue Party presents a substantial political challenge to Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit. "Once the initial shock wears off, the political recriminations will grow," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. "Poor construction work in a region known for earthquakes caused a death toll that...
...ever lengthening list of titles, many of dubious merit, readers may have to turn themselves into literary search engines. On the bright side, personal favorites that are noncommercial will never be more than a mouse click away. It's a confusing, if heartening, prospect. And while some industry experts predict that someday all books will be published this way, that day is probably years off. For now, the Howard Olsens of this world will be hunkered down at their word processors, hard at work, armed with a few hundred dollars and a dream...
...commerce. Last year UPS delivered 3 billion packages in 200 countries, earning $1.7 billion on sales of $24.8 billion--way bigger numbers than FedEx's. And there's no place in the U.S. that UPS doesn't go. If e-commerce grows 30% a year, as some predict, the impact on earnings will be dramatic...