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Contra leaders insist that they are on the rebound from the Sandinista offensive. Fresh supplies of aid from the U.S. will improve morale and enable the contras to equip new recruits. The rebel leaders do not predict a military victory, at least any time soon. Their aim is to hold on and sap the shaky Nicaraguan economy by sabotaging power lines and blocking highways. "The contras are able to make a lot of noise and cause damage to the Sandinista regime," says Colonel Mark Richards, a U.S. intelligence analyst. "But they are highly unlikely to be the future rulers...
Despite the reservations, smart buildings appear to have no place to go but up. Last year nearly $100 million worth of communications equipment was sold to smart buildings, and analysts predict that the market will grow to $3 billion a year by 1990, when the U.S. may have as many as 1,600 smart buildings. Already Cushman's Dallas-based property manager, Jay Dee Allen, says that fully half his inquiries concern space in smart buildings. "Smart technology makes it easier to attract tenants," says Larry Guilmette, manager of Bronson and Hutensky, a co-developer of Hartford's CityPlace...
...call it Hick from Harvard,' Hick from tobacco farm tobacco to Harvard, makes good," Langerman reacts with horror. "That's him, I don't have long-term goals. I'm 21. I figure I've got 30 years ahead expect to live to be 100. I can't predict what will happen...
...those "intangible" factors often so prized in admissions--essays, interviews, and recommendations--actually add little to our ability to predict later kinds of success...
...speaking, Klitgaard's book is dogged by the possibility that he is merely setting up a framework for the perpetuation of the current elite structure in this country. Two stark facts stare from his analysis. One is that test scores and grades are the only indicator that can satisfactorily predict academic success in college. The other is that, this said, there is little that can help us predict success in later life. But isn't this latter kind of success exactly the kind of success we are most interested in fostering? Because this type cannot be predicted adequately, Klitgaard seems...