Word: predicting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...customers happily chomping away. The new Big Mac, currently priced at around $2, could appear in stores "within months," according to the fast food empire. That deadline might be moved back, though, if, as expected, franchisee owners give the plan the nod this Friday. Whenever it comes, analysts predict that the 55 cents Big Mac will spark a fierce price war with competitors Wendy's and Burger King, who so far have been adept at luring customers away from the Golden Arches with cheaper offerings. Over the next year, the 55-cent deal will rotate from...
...volcanic secrets doesn't always require such sophisticated instruments. Increasingly, researchers have come to appreciate that volcanoes, like living organisms, have their own internal metabolisms, and like any metabolic system, they give off telltale waste products--particularly gases. Williams is developing a new way to read those gases and predict just when a mountain will probably detonate...
...going to speculate or predict anything [about the future]," said Joseph G. Wrinn Jr., director of the Harvard News Office. "We're happy with what's happened today...
...work on the common cold, which is what half of "flu" sufferers really have. Even at that, the compound works best during the first 48 hours of infection--before most people even begin experiencing those running noses and raging fevers. That is why the scientists at Gilead predict that it will be better at keeping you from getting your neighbor's flu than treating your...
...other monsters of the unconscious are flitting, is clearly derived from the frontispiece to Tiepolo's Scherzi di Fantasia, a gravestone infested with owls. The terrible figure of the red-capped torturer looming behind the mutilated saint in Tiepolo's Martyrdom of Saint Agatha, c. 1755, seems to predict the primal energy of Goya's giants...