Word: expect
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TIME's economists were unanimous, however, in arguing that the pressures of the present should not divert attention from the big challenge of the future: aging populations that can't expect adequate support in retirement from moribund social-security systems. If anything, businesses, tax regimes and pension schemes need to change faster to meet those burdens...
...Duraflame personnel access color-coded charts online that help them determine how many logs they can expect to need in Atlanta in January or in Denver in November. The model, created by Planalytics, tracks Duraflame's historical sales against weather data for the same time period and then makes projections from long-range weather forecasts. The formula is a lot more complex than the simple deduction that cold weather equals sales. Regional buying habits, for example, are taken into account. In Jacksonville, Fla., fire logs sell when temperatures dip into the 60s. In San Francisco, people buy when...
With history as our guide, we can expect that the government will use this event to push through legislation authorizing digital wiretapping without court orders, to outlaw encryption that the government cannot crack and to track the location of cell-phone users without their knowledge. They'll push laws that eliminate individual rights in exchange for more government "protection" against cybercrime...
...Hampshire. Most amazingly, this self-styled reformer heralds campaign finance reform as a centerpiece of his platform. In 1992, mentioning campaign finance reform as a real possibility got predictable laughs. Who could amass enough money to win the presidency by biting the hand that feeds them? How would you expect members of Congress to endorse you when you're campaigning to take away the very thing that got them there? And yet campaign finance reform is good for ordinary citizens, and by promoting it McCain--and to a lesser extent Bill Bradley--is bringing the debate to the people...
...same level with Brown. In the teams' previous meeting in December, Harvard took a 4-1 lead into the third period, but could not hold on at the end as the Bears came back with three goals in the final ten minutes to tie the game. Shewchuk does not expect to see another collapse from Harvard in Saturday's game...