Word: predictive
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...Rudenstine checked off goal after goal that he had set for himself, University insiders began to predict that Rudenstine would stay on a few years into 2000 in order to enjoy his legacy...
...next big thing. Though its connectivity rates are still low in comparison with the U.S.'s--only about 2% of Latin America's 500 million people are online, while more than half of Americans are--telecommunications analysts say it is the fastest-growing market in the world. They predict that by 2003 the networked region will reach anywhere from 29.6 million to 43 million regular Internet users and that these users will be spending as much as $8 billion for online purchases. Those numbers have entrepreneurs and investors in such a frenzy rushing to wire the region and reap those...
CHEMO TEST In the battle to defeat cancer, chemotherapy can sometimes (albeit rarely) prove fatal--or cause such intolerable side effects that it has to be halted. Now scientists have developed a simple and, alas, still experimental test that can predict just how well a patient will handle cancer drugs. Patients have their breath analyzed (by blowing into a balloon) soon after they are injected with a tiny dose of a drug that releases carbon particles while it's being broken down by the liver. Very little carbon suggests the body will be slow to metabolize cancer drugs--and that...
...predict the character's trajectory fairly early on in the film. Do you play it just for laughs, then, or do you still try to create a sympathetic and affecting character...
...that you have a little history behind why it might be so hard for me to predict the Knicks to win this year's playoffs, you may wonder why anyone other than the Lakers or Blazers this year should have a chance. After all, haven't most of the pundits already declared the Western Conference Finals to be for all intents and purposes the real NBA Finals? Just five days ago, it seemed as though Chicago Bulls West, I mean ... the L.A. Lakers, were primed to bring back a championship to the City of Angels twelve years since Magic...