Word: predicting
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...uncontrolled AIDS pandemic, a justice system in disarray, an inept police force, the second highest murder rate and the highest rape rate in the world, ethnic cleansing of white citizens, the national electricity provider unable to satisfy power needs, and more than half of municipalities approaching bankruptcy. Cynics now predict that South Africa will become the next Zimbabwe. This is Mandela's real legacy. He is the genial, smiling fig leaf that duped the world into believing South Africa would prosper under an ANC administration. Allan Banfield, Hatfield, England...
...critics by saying that national elections would be held in November 1987. After 28 years of Duvalier rule, Haiti is beset by an opposition that is splintered into two dozen or more parties that may decide to field presidential candidates. The situation was so volatile that nobody could possibly predict what Haiti might be like in 17 months' time. But for the moment, many Haitians believe the present junta has a better-than-even chance of lasting long enough to surrender power to a democratically elected government...
...voter registration figures" aren't everybody's idea of a good time, but voting experts pore over obscure and apparently random registration data the way seismologists measure tiny movements in the earth's crust in order to predict when an earthquake is coming...
...this cycle ever going to end? It has to someday, although at this point only a fool or a psychic would dare predict when. The more important question may be, What the heck does it all mean for people without Bloomberg terminals and subscriptions to the Financial Times...
...will and charisma of a local governor and owed little to Western-funded "capacity-building" seminars. The greatest recent improvements in local government have come about through the replacement of local governors rather than through hundred-million-dollar training programs. Since these successes are often difficult to predict, we should invest in numerous smaller opportunities rather than bet all our chips on a few large programs...