Word: predictive
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...difficult to predict the economic situations that Lindsey will encounter in the upcoming year, says IBM Professor of Business and Government Roger B. Porter...
...these groups manage to turn up substantial heat under Ashcroft (as some observers predict they will), Bush will face a crisis of faith, so to speak. Will he stand by his man, absorbing the political body blows as a form of payback to the right-wing religious organizations that secured his election? Or will he eventually decide that defending Ashcroft's potentially divisive record could cost more political capital than he's willing to lose so early in the game...
...expected. But if we're through the worst of it in the next six months, as many economists believe, then the stock market could begin to recover right away as it looks ahead to the next expansion. That's how bull markets are born. Indeed, many on Wall Street predict double-digit returns from the Dow and S&P 500 in 2001. The tech-laden NASDAQ they see as more problematic, but still going higher...
...knowledge, in the tradition of Berkeley and Hume, based on radical empiricism: that everything we can know about the world derives only from our sensory perceptions and that anything else we might think exists--ranging from physical objects to metaphysical beliefs--is merely a mental construct that may help predict our perceptions but cannot be known as objectively true; in Boston. His seminal 1951 essay "Two Dogmas of Empiricism" and 1960 book Word and Object built upon the works of such logical positivists as Rudolf Carnap and A.J. Ayer to place him just a notch below Wittgenstein in the pantheon...
...United-USAirways deal is monopolistic. Some experts are unimpressed by this move. "United is throwing Justice a bone," says Richard Gritta, professor of finance at the University of Portland's R. B. Pamplin School of Business. That bone - and an incoming business-friendly administration - could be enough; analysts predict relatively laissez-faire antitrust efforts at Justice...