Word: predictive
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Some things, clearly, they would rather not have changed at all, no matter what any market surveys seem to predict. "Baseball, hamburgers, Coke--they're all the fabric of America," cried Gay Mullins, the much quoted Seattle real estate man and triumphant noisemaker who filed suit to prevent the company from depriving him of the pause that refreshes...
...faced the prospect of a sitting President who, no matter how dramatic his recovery, would be followed by the shadow of a major disease for the rest of his presidency. If the President's personal prognosis seemed promising, the outlook for his presidency was somewhat more difficult to predict...
...downfall of a government that he says is run by "the spiritual children of Hitler." Boesak, a married man, was harassed by allegations, reportedly planted by security police, that he was having an affair with a white woman. His church cleared him of the charges. South African liberals predict that Boesak could be the first leading churchman to be silenced under the new emergency regulations...
This summer's surge in prices is likely to be temporary. The hefty profits being made on gasoline will probably stimulate production. In addition, imports of auto fuel from overseas refineries are on the rise. Most industry experts predict that by the end of the year, at the latest, the cost of gasoline will be moving in the same direction as the price of crude oil: down...
...steal votes from the left-wing coalition: "This could mean that we lose the next elections. And I don't think women's causes are better served by a non-Socialist government." While analysts believe FI has a good chance of winning seats in Parliament in 2006, they also predict that it could be a one-off performance. Single-issue parties rarely live long. But this prospect doesn't deter Schyman. "We are asking for the voter's mandate to use the parliamentary system to break down the patriarchal power structure. Once that is done, our party is no longer...