Word: predictions
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...back at criminals is growing at a time, oddly enough, when reported crime rates are declining (see chart). An important reason: the post-World War II baby boomers have moved out of their late teens, the most crime-prone age, and are now in their 20s or older. Experts predict that crime rates will continue to fall as this group ages. Harvard's Wilson thinks he has a campaign promise that every candidate can keep: "Elect me, and you will see the crime rate go down...
...much time Gorbachev has to make his mark is, of course, impossible to predict. If he lives as long as Chernenko, and if he stays in the good graces of his colleagues in the Politburo, he could be a leader for decades to come. And because he is young and likely to be around for quite some time, there is a natural tendency to see him as a herald of change. To some extent he is, and the change is already evident. Now that the junior member of the Politburo has become the senior partner, the collective leadership cannot...
Women in the study were monitored for an average of 39 months after surgery, but statistical methods were used to predict their survival after five years. , Results showed that there was no advantage to having the entire breast removed. In fact, the patients who fared the best were those who had a lumpectomy plus radiation. The five-year survival rate for such patients was 85%, as opposed to 76% for women in the mastectomy group. The radiation patients also had a reduced risk of breast-tumor recurrence: only 7.7% developed another tumor in the same breast, as opposed...
...queuing up with their pet projects. University of Pennsylvania Economist Lawrence Klein wants supercomputer time to build a comprehensive model of the world economy. At the University of Illinois, Meteorologist Robert Wilhelmson hopes to simulate the birth of a tornado. Hidenori Murakami, a structural engineer at UCSD, aims to predict the effects of earthquakes on skyscrapers, bridges and other structures. And at Cornell, researchers working under Wilson want to use their new machine to design a supercomputer a thousand times more powerful than the one they are about to receive...
...Admitted Greenspan: "The dollar has long been a great worry of mine." If foreigners lost confidence in the dollar, they might start pulling large sums of money out of American investments. That could lead to a run-up in U.S. interest rates and slower growth than the economists now predict...