Word: predictive
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...think this indicates the importance of monitoring active earthquakes and improving the ability to predict when big eruptions occur,” he said. “The success we’ve had so far has saved hundreds, if not thousands, of lives, so there’s no reason not to continue to improve our ability to do that. There’s no doubt that within our lifetime, major eruptions will occur...
...movie moves along fast enough, despite its artsiness and the fact that, within the first 20 minutes or so, you can predict almost every element of the plot. This, I believe, is the point—as the movie progresses, and you know what will happen, you want to tell the dude in the back to stop the film and rewind to the beginning where we were showing fields of swaying flowers...
...evaporating. I hope to see women priests and same-sex marriage, and I believe Christ would as well, and it is only a matter of time before the Church accedes (or succumbs) to our democratic vision of the world and accepts these and other changes. But I predict this with sadness as well as hope, for it means losing something good along...
...high heap of bricks, zinc roofing and chunks of cement in less than five minutes. "When the quake hit we had no time to save anything but ourselves," says Waru. Certainly, they received no earthquake warning from local officials. Because the reality is, it's still impossible to predict with any accuracy when the earth's plates will shift, triggering a quake. All the same, seismologist McCloskey believes the omens aren't good. He says the stress that brought about the two massive convulsions of the past three months has still not been relieved and has simply shifted farther south...
...Social Security, raising both payroll taxes and the retirement age. Since then, Social Security has run a massive surplus, invested in a Trust Fund of iron clad Treasury bonds that will be tapped in 2018 when the Baby Boomers cause Social Security to run a deficit. Social Security actuaries predict that the Trust Fund will be adequate and will keep Social Security solvent far into the future...