Word: predictions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people watch the series," he notes, "at some point they're going to say, 'Is that really in there?' And they're going to look at a Bible. And they're going to be dumbfounded how it speaks to their own life." He feels no need to try to predict "whether this will make them march to the churches and the synagogues, or merely recognize that here is a classic of Western literature. That's almost incidental," Visotzky contends. "The Bible can pretty well speak for itself...
...consensus for reform." Indeed, even Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, whose Liberal Democrats were in cahoots with the bureaucrats for decades, has promised to cut the 22 ministries in half if his party manages to once again win a solid mandate. Although the party is currently in the lead, polls predict that it will fall short of a majority, raising the specter of further coalition rule for the country. Whoever forms the government will come under pressure to restructure everything from Japan's backward social-welfare system to its hesitant defense role in the face of challenges from the rest...
Today scientists manufacture buckyballs by the pound and in a variety of sizes and shapes, from flat sheets to long filaments. Some can hold atoms of other elements in their hollow interiors; others can conduct electricity. Given the versatility of buckyballs, scientists predict that they will someday be used for, among other things, drug-delivery systems, superfine electrical wires and hairlike tubes of unprecedented tensile strength...
...financial impact of this proposal is difficult to predict, according to committee members...
...There have been a couple of occasions on the lower Charles where boaters have reported getting sick," Moraff said. "It might be dangerous, it's hard to predict...