Word: predictably
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...RIDDLE of a Harvard-Yale football game is one which the wiseacres of the football coterie have never been able to solve. If they cannot explain results that have been, surely they cannot predict what the results will be. "The odds are on Harvard," some say with a finality that spells a Crimson victory. But who ever heard of odds on Yale, reasonable or unreasonable? "Harvard has a better record," say others, forgetting that games are not won on records. Harvard tried the record policy in 1911, and neither won. "Yale has the old Yale spirit," say still others...
...venture capital helped rekindle the region's growth. Regis McKenna, Silicon Valley's pre-eminent marketing consultant, says he has seen half a dozen recessions in his 31 years in the Valley. "Every three years we go through these cyclical changes," he says. "In the course of them, people predict that the Valley is changing or coming...
There are few precedents to help predict what the Supreme Court will decide. The Justices ruled 5 to 3 last year, for example, that municipalities can be compelled to correct vestiges of prior discrimination. The question is whether college systems have a similar duty, since students attend them voluntarily. Justice David Souter was asked in his confirmation hearings about racial discrimination, and replied that there was a duty not only to stop it but also to offer redress. Clarence Thomas, according to individuals familiar with his thinking, is said to be "pro-black colleges," but in public pronouncements...
...bounds of privacy dissolve under the demands for frankness, they also bend before the pressures for AIDS testing, drug testing and now even genetic testing, which promises to predict each person's inherited susceptibility to certain illnesses but could also create a pariah class of people that employers would regard as too prone to cancer, heart disease or other ailments. Into this volatile mix of half-formed attitudes and sharply felt anxieties, technology has arrived with a host of unprecedented temptations. Many new answering machines are equipped to surreptitiously tape whole conversations. Video-surveillance cameras quietly scan many workplaces. Neighborhood...
...more computer power than the fastest machines could provide. Today's models, for example, are not able to determine the structure of a protein from a sequence of genes. They can map the earth's atmosphere or its ocean currents but not the interactions between the two. They can predict hurricanes, but not such smaller meteorological events as thunderstorms and tornadoes...