Word: predicting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...there's considerable resentment against him in the officer corps. And Toledo's not exactly a fire-breathing leftist, so rather than weigh in behind Fujimori, this time the military may simply go with whoever emerges strongest in the runoff." While it's far too early to predict a result for that election, it's a safe bet that its victor will sport his share of welts and bruises...
...only their former allies but also the burgeoning trust of the current administration. "Clearly there's been a lot of friction between Smith & Wesson and the retail stores," says Barnes. And now there's an equally powerful frisson of tension percolating between the feds and the gunmaker; some analysts predict they could end up facing one another as adversaries in a lengthy court battle...
...first time in eons, the Red Sox have actually been predicted to do well by people who live outside the Greater Boston area. Some brazen souls, including the editors of Sports Illustrated, have gone so far as to predict a World Series championship is in store for the Sox squad...
...constitute only 1% to 10% of the matter in the universe. The rest is invisible; it emits no light. Nobody yet knows what this dark matter is. One possibility is that it's made of WIMP--weakly interacting massive particles. Until the dark matter is identified and tallied, predicting the future of the universe on the basis of what we can see will be as uncertain as trying to predict an election by polling a few golfers down at the country club...
...when scientists harbored an almost naive faith in the ability of modern technology to end droughts, banish hail and improve meteorological conditions in countless other ways. At one point, pioneering chemist Irving Langmuir suggested that it would prove easier to change the weather to our liking than to predict its duplicitous twists and turns. The great mathematician John von Neumann even calculated what mounting an effective weather-modification effort would cost the U.S.--about as much as building the railroads, he figured, and worth incalculably more...