Word: predictive
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...delay will allow the Taliban to reveal their positions in Kabul and restore their morale. Time, in other words, is running out. Ramadan is less than a month away, and more importantly, so is winter, when military operations are severely hampered. Some commanders, when pushed - Azimi, for example - still predict an advance on Kabul in the next week or so. But, they sound neither convinced nor convincing. Alliance political leaders meanwhile deny any external interference in their planning. "The decision to attack will be ours alone," said Kanuni. The criteria on which they will base this decision, however, are becoming...
...generals had no plans to use their considerable stores of anthrax - for the simple reason that nuclear and chemical warheads were more reliable weapons of mass destruction. "Bioweapons could kill hundreds of thousands or no one at all, depending on the weather and other factors that are hard to predict," writes commentator Pavel Felgenhauer. Still, he adds, "The inaccuracy and unpredictability of bioweapons makes them the perfect terrorist weapon that may kill few, but is guaranteed to terrify...
...around the water cooler feeling chipper. Many employees view defined-contribution plans as just another corporate cutback dressed up as employee empowerment. To some degree, they're right. Theoretically at least, companies can--by paying a fixed amount each year instead of a percentage of ever rising premiums--better predict and control the price of health care, leaving workers to pick up the rest...
...predict this pattern will stop. In an offensive shootout, led by Neil Rose for Harvard and Gavin Hoffman for Penn, the Quakers have the advantage. Right now, Penn has the higher-rated defense. But by the time the squad rolls into Cambridge in November, Penn will have faced some of the tougher teams in the league. Barring any new injuries, the Crimson ought to be in better shape. For once, Harvard ought to escape with a last-second victory...
...True, victory can't be assured (nor easily defined). But to predict another Vietnam for America and its allies is unduly pessimistic. The war against terrorism might be more pertinently seen as a new cold war?because of several important parallels...