Word: predictional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...factories and the union meetings. Britain's parties today have so much in common, a trait which is to a great extent inherent in Parliamentary governments, that the success or failure of either one will rest ultimately on the people at large. It would be foolish to attempt to predict the outcome of the present political skirmish on the basis of devaluation, its results, and the debate. If the Conservatives return to power at the next election, and then manhandle devaluation, the laborites will have a strong talking point in succeeding elections. Whatever happens, the pound is still...
...Veep's Prerogative. Democrats had their answers ready. The peril-point procedure, they said, would induce caution verging on stagnation in the Tariff Commission; how could anybody safely predict a peril point for years in the future? It was also an open invitation to every industry to bring terrific political pressures to bear on its behalf. "With the peril-point amendment," argued Majority Leader Scott Lucas, "we abandon our position as the economic leader in world affairs . . . We cannot say to the rest of the world: 'From now on the primary factor in our tariff system is protection...
...conference also heard Frederick Mosteller, lecturer on Mechanical Statistics, predict that new Large-scale Digital Calculating machinery may soon enable scientists to predict mathematically the chances of success of a given marriage or the degree of readjustment to the community that a given parolee will make when he is released from prison...
There are so many variables that must be taken into account in a given problem in the Social Sciences, Mosteller stated, that before the advent of the Mark III it was impossible to predict statistically the chances for marital success...
...effect" against one or more types of mouse cancer. A couple of dozen had some lesser effect. According to Dr. C. Chester Stock, head of the Division of Experimental Chemotherapy, this record is by no means discouraging. As the records and experience accumulate, the scientists are learning how to predict whether a compound is worth testing. If a new one has a slight effect, one of its close relatives may prove better. And each slightly successful drug sets biochemists to figuring out why it worked...