Word: predictive
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...sisters (and doubles partners) each predict victory and no hard feelings; Dad hedged his bets, putting 50 pounds sterling on each daughter on his way out of town. TIME Daily's five bucks is on Venus, who overpowered Martina Hingis to get to the semifinal and has taken three of four career matches from her younger, shorter sis. Though Serena took the U.S. Open last year and was touted as the sister to beat, family karma suggests it's Venus's turn to take her shot in a major final...
...much for Big Tobacco, though - analysts predict the spun-off companies will worry less about the U.S. market as they focus their energies on the burgeoning demand for cigarettes abroad. In tobacco-mad China and Africa, nothing stands between the Marlboro Man and a whole new generation of pack-a-day smokers...
With Nader and Buchanan in the debates, the result would be impossible to predict. Both Nader and Buchanan speak from within consistent and coherent worldviews. And each runs for the presidency with, so to speak, the integrity of hopelessness. Fighting a lost cause sharpens one's opinions. Gore and Bush are inevitably corrupted by their hopes for the office; sheer expectation deadens their language...
...course, because the Federal Reserve under Chairman Alan Greenspan has been raising interest rates for just short of a year to slow a runaway boom. Members of TIME's board differ considerably on how soon and how hard those rate hikes will bite. But all agree on two predictions: 1) there will indeed be a slowdown; 2) the chance that it will turn into a recession is, in Sinai's word, "zero." Diane Swonk, chief economist of Bank One and president of the National Association for Business Economics, declares, "I expect this expansion to last until 2004"--which...
Human population and our technological advances are increasing exponentially and, if the predictions of many scientists are borne out, so will our problems--widespread famine, massive shortages of clean water, unstoppable viruses, flooding, global warming (or cooling), a vanishing natural environment and mass extinction. Meanwhile, technology promises to solve these problems--feed the world, eliminate industrial waste, clean up the environment, predict climates and earthquakes, reduce human suffering and extend human life. In the short run, low tech will not replace high, if only because we need increasingly sophisticated technologies to solve the very problems technology created...