Word: predictability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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East Cambridge leaders say they are attempting to strike a balance between growth--which they predict will spread throughout the old neighborhood if left unchecked--and the preservation of long standing community bonds...
...trying to forget. I noticed that how well an outreach will be depends on a number of factors: the attitudes of the first-years, if there's a Chem 10 exam the next day, whether the peer counselors had enough coffee and so on. They are almost impossible to predict. On some level, though, everyone learns something about each others' views or starts to think a little more about gays, lesbians and bisexuals and how they affect our lives. That is the point of the outreach, after...
...find it tough to navigate online systems. "Between New York and Chicago there are over 300 fares at any given point in time," says Roger Ballou, president of American Express Travel RelatedServices Group. "That's just the airlines. Then there are hotels, cars and everything else." Still, travel experts predict that do-it-yourself ticketing, which accounts for less than 5% of all airline reservations, will grow rapidly as more Americans turn to their computers...
...jealousy among low-fat fanatics as well as less cal-conscious fans of soft desserts. Currier residents, like the first family on the block to get a color TV or a '57 Chevy, jump at any opportunity to express their pride. Chris Baker '96 goes so far as to predict that application to Currier house will experience a "drastic change" this year...
While proponents of its predict that its various technologies could reduce highway fatalities as much as 8% by 2011 in addition to expediting traffic and cutting down on pollution, the program is not without its critics. They are concerned about not only its cost, which could total $209 billion by 2011, but other consequences as well. Some fear that making more efficient use of highways and producing cars that are more attractive to drive, for example, will encourage more car owners to take to the roads, thereby negating any drop in pollution resulting from better gas mileage...