Word: predictability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ralph Crosby, Northrop vice president for the B-2, says CBO's historical analysis can't predict the cost of the next planes because ``we now have a firm, fixed-price offer'' pending at the Pentagon. ``It's based on lean production techniques,'' Crosby says. The 11,000 people working on the first B-2s, for example, would be trimmed to about 3,600 for the second...
...attempt to hide from the consequences of their attack on CPB, Republicans predict that CPB's most popular programs will be bought up by the networks and will flourish in the private sector...
...Bruce Willis. Since mangling his knee on the job, Sully insists that he is owed compensation. His one legged lawyer, Wirf, portrayed marvelously by Gene Saks, can't get the local judge to agree. Unfortunately for Sully, his lawyer isn't on a hot streak. He can't even predict the outcome of a case on "The People's Court." Sully has a better chance of collecting money on the Trifecta ticket--a longshot in horseracing--that he plays every...
...outside producers) is being blurred. The networks, given the chance to produce and own their shows, are acting more like studios, while the studios, afraid of being squeezed out, are trying to become networks. Just how this will affect what viewers see on their home screens is hard to predict. The advent of new competitors could foster more diversity and innovation. But with everyone aiming for the same audience -- those inescapable young-adult demographics -- the result could be just more of the same old thing. "The good news is that there will be a lot more stuff to see," says...
...formidable and controversial example of this than the Vatican's intervention at the U.N.'s International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo in September. There the Pope's emissaries defeated a U.S.-backed proposition John Paul feared would encourage abortions worldwide. The consequences may be global and -- critics predict -- catastrophic, particularly in the teeming Third World, where John Paul is so admired...