Word: predictor
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...think this is a very good time to be answering hypothetical questions," Christopher said when asked about Gore quitting with a loss on Monday. Scalia's statement, he said, was merely self-justification for the stay, and not necessarily a predictor of future behavior. "Let's just ride with it and see what happens...
STRESSED WIVES Wives who want to know whether their marriage will survive should perhaps check their stress hormones. According to a recent study that examined the effects of stress on marriage, rising stress-hormone levels can be a predictor of divorce. Women whose levels rose while they were discussing their relationships, even in a pleasant way, were twice as likely to get divorced as women whose hormones remained constant...
...Especially when 50 percent of the former has a part of its daily wealth riding on the latter. The drift of the Dow and NASDAQ has been cited as a possible predictor, even a determining factor, of a national election meant to set a course for a full four years, which is quite a large sample of what used to be called the business cycle. Yet at election time, a voter can use the markets to sample his own heart; after all, every investor would prefer to vote with his broker's blessing...
...Around the world, scientists have found that roads are the single best (but not infallible) predictor of tropical deforestation. In the Brazilian Amazon, roughly 75% of the deforestation that has taken place has occurred within 50 km of a paved road. In the 26 years after the 1965 paving of the slender highway between the Amazon city of Bel?m and Bras?lia, 58% of the forests disappeared in a 100-km swath on either side of the road. The paving of 1,460 km of highway BR-364 between the city of Cuiab? in Mato Grosso and Porto Velho in Rond?nia...
...1990s were a banner decade for book banning - or, more accurately, for attempts to ban books, and if this year is any predictor, the next 10 years won't be any better. The wildly popular "Harry Potter" series sparked myriad complaints; some parents maintain that the books, which follow the path of a young wizard as he learns to use his magic skills, advocate witchcraft. Numerous school districts have considered banning the series from classrooms, but only a few have made good on the threat. According to the American Library Association, more than 5,000 complaints were recorded at school...