Word: prediction
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also seem strange to hear the world's most successful company predict its own demise. But it's a familiar story on Wall Street, where Microsoft is famous for telling analysts that the future looks bleak and then acting surprised when its profits go up. Sure enough, when Microsoft announced its quarterly results last week, it revealed that its income had jumped 75%, handily beating expectations and sending its stock soaring. Investors learned long ago to discount Microsoft's predictions that the sky is falling. Microsoft's challenge is to convince the courts that now it really...
...statistics--starting with that 90% reduction in deaths. The Mayo investigators derived the figure from statistical models and from the death rate of the patients' sisters, who did not undergo the operation but presumably faced the same cancer risk. The deaths among the untreated sisters led doctors to predict that there should have been 20 deaths from breast cancer in the research subjects. In fact, after the mastectomies, there were only two deaths...
Most Senators had strong feelings on the matter, but they fell like marbles on the floor, and no one could predict who would roll where. There were Democrats who felt you could not have a trial without witnesses; there were Republicans who were determined to avoid a circus. Many in both parties swatted at Hyde's efforts to shape the rules--he who had argued during the House phase that no witnesses were necessary because the record was so complete. "It's interesting to me that the House is asking for witnesses in the Senate trial that they...
...American carmakers is that they will not necessarily be the beneficiaries as the number of wealthy boomers expands over the next decade. Experts predict that the gradual drift away from American-made luxury cars toward such European models as Mercedes and BMW will only accelerate. According to Ward's AutoInfoBank, European brands account for more than a third of U.S. luxury-car sales, and Mercedes and BMW are leading with about 10% apiece...
...prominent Reconstructionist is Gary North, Rushdoony's son-in-law and head of his own Institute for Christian Economics. "Scary Gary's" website is by far one of the most popular Y2K panic centers. "In all of man's history," he has warned, "we have never been able to predict with such accuracy a worldwide disaster of this magnitude. The millennium clock keeps ticking. There is nothing we can do." But he has a few recommendations anyhow: buy gold and grain; quit your job; and find a remote cabin safe from the rioting hordes. He also recommends a two-year...