Word: predictive
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...easy to predict which sibling will take on the job. Most frequently, says Cleveland University sociologist Sarah Matthews, the caregiver is the female child who lives closest and the one who is single or has the fewest career or family responsibilities. Sometimes a son will take on that role, but it is rarely a group effort. Less understood are the underlying psychological reasons that a particular adult child steps up to embrace--or gets stuck with--a parent's late-life needs. But, clearly, the history of family relationships--which child was more in synch with which parent, which siblings...
...long-term change, I think that people will be able to work within that context,” says Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department Chair Cynthia M. Friend, who is a member of the group of chairs. “If not, it’s difficult to predict...
...brand-name of international renown, the consistent media scrutiny of its miniscule acceptance rate, the rockstar faculty, or its students’ composite SAT scores that set Harvard apart from its “peer” institutions. Indeed, it is rather our uncanny ability to predict the future that makes Harvard graduates first among equals...
Newsweek was also playing with fire by relying on a single, anonymous source to support such a provocative claim. In this case, the source was presuming to describe a still unpublished report that neither the Newsweek correspondent nor the source possessed. "You're trying to predict what's going to be in a document that hasn't yet been written," says Nicholas Lemann, dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. "If you have one source who says, 'I'm sitting in an office right now looking at the report,' and then they read you the page, then...
...center of India's boom, his fund doesn't own a single Indian stock. "People are paying ridiculous prices on promises of the future," he says. As Wadhwaney sees it, "the future is an imponderable. Most people's prognostications are a very poor use of time." Nobody can reliably predict which way the stock market will move or what a company's earnings will be, he argues, so the key is to focus on the present, appraising a company's existing assets and buying the stock only if those assets seem to be grossly undervalued. Typically, he then holds...