Word: predictions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wisconsin and Washington are going to be our hardest competition," Captain Debbie Porterfield said. "It will be easier to predict the outcome of our season after this weekend. It looks promising...
...People have focused on the important idea thatblood pressure, smoking, and cholesterol level arethe three major risk factors that predict thelikelihood of developing heart disease," saidTaylor. "If you quit smoking or lower bloodpressure, you change from a high-risk to alow-risk category. But lowering cholesterol doesnot produce as much change...
...required her to experience such feelings--for a fee. But there are limits to what men and women can know about their own bodies or their own psyches, and they remain even when technology makes it possible for one woman to bear a child for another. No one can predict what feelings a particular pregnancy might inspire well enough to put a price on them...
Observers of Evangelicalism predict that, in the short run at least, PTL supporters will rally around their beleaguered organization. The TV ministries like PTL occupy powerful positions because they meet the spiritual and emotional needs of millions of viewers. Indeed, loyal fans of the Bakkers reacted with surprising equanimity to the couple's disappearance. Ron Olguin, manager of New Mexico's Bernalillo County and a daily viewer of religious TV, contributes upwards of $10,000 a year to televangelists. He is irritated by all the criticism of the Bakkers. "These people have done a lot of good in their lives...
...industry observers predict that Fox's road to success will be long and hard. Most of the Hollywood community is publicly rooting for the newcomer (largely because it offers another market for programming), but privately, in the words of one producer, "skepticism is running very high. The money in this town is on failure." No one, however, is ready to dismiss Murdoch's bold venture. "It's well financed, it's well conceived, and it's got a guy with deep pockets," says Edward Atorino, media analyst at Smith Barney. Murdoch expects to spend $150 million over the next...