Word: predictably
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this point has been a mythical place: a Latin America that respects and loves itself, is incorruptible, romantic, nationalistic and has a human perception of the needs of the world at large." Blades is traveling to Panama next month to "see the situation for myself" but refuses to predict when he might return there permanently. Says Blades: "I can tell you this, I will go back to Panama, and it won't be when I'm 60 or even 50. I'll be there this decade...
California is a country-size economy by itself, accounting for some 14% of America's total GNP. The main threat to the state's prosperity comes from looming defense cuts, which would have a sizable impact on Southern California's aerospace industry. Economists predict that unemployment in California will rise from 5.1%, vs. the current 5.3% U.S. average, to 7.4% in 1992, largely as a result of defense cutbacks. Meanwhile, the median price of a Los Angeles home reached $224,000 in the third quarter of 1989, up 18.7% from the previous year. Says Stephen Levy, director of the Center...
Since then, researchers have been monitoring the hole and looking for similar ozone destruction over populated areas. Scientists predict that thinning ozone, and the resulting increase in ultraviolet radiation, will cause damage to plants and animals, as well as skin cancers and cataracts in humans. To keep a bad situation from getting worse, nations are working on an international agreement designed to phase out production of CFCs by the year...
...valediction to his dead master, To the Memory of Cole, 1848, with its rose-wreathed cross on a mountainside between two emblems -- the tree stump (death) and the evergreens (posthumous fame) -- carries the Claudean stereotype into America. The billows of pink and white cloud on its far horizon predict the grand effects that Church's later work would seek as it moved from Claude to a closer model, Turner...
Even so, pharmaceutical profit margins are on the rise, often by substantial amounts. Some stock analysts predict that earnings for major U.S. drug companies will climb as much as 15% annually over the period from last year to 1991. Although prescription drugs account for less than 10% of health-care costs in the U.S., pharmaceutical expenses are growing at twice the rate of other medical expenditures...