Word: predictioneer
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Yet we still struggle to know what comes next in politics, in business, in fashion, in art. Whole industries are built on predictions of trends and tastes, political parties risk all on forecasts of voters' views, designers cut their cloth on the basis of what a buyer will want to...
Bush's political advisers decided to keep Ashcroft under wraps, away from the press. "They hope that if they don't have John talk," says an Ashcroft partisan, "the conversation will cease." But it had already become clear that Ashcroft's vote count had fallen from 70 to around 60...
What's frightening is that these discoveries make it clear how little astronomers know about planets, and they add to the dawning realization that our solar system--and by implication Planet Earth--may be a cosmic oddball. For years theorists figured that other stars would have planets more or less...
Prediction: This will be a blockbuster fight, with both sides pulling out all the stops. If Ashcroft takes office, he will do so a bruised man.
Prediction: Rumsfeld won't take too much heat over this; while it's certainly pleasant to imagine an underling taking Nixon to task for his paranoid rantings, it's not exactly realistic.