Word: predictive
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...recent Pew survey showed that only 8% of web users say a favorite site of theirs has bit the dust. And a report by Forester research says that despite the Nasdaq swan dive and the VC drought, people spent $45 billion online last year, and they predict that figure will reach $75 billion this year. By my calculation, that's $75 billion more than was spent on the Internet, oh, ten years...
...Koizumi will be. "Odds are Koizumi will fail to get through most of his reforms," says Behravesh. "It's an ugly scenario for Japan and for the U.S." Why will he fail? Many in the Japanese parliament are worried that the medicine will be too harsh. Indeed, some analysts predict that this PM won't be around long. "Koizumi is trying single-handedly to take on the Old Guard of the Liberal Democratic Party and one way or another, he's going to get knifed," says Sean Callow, a currency strategist with IDEAglobal...
...listless international marketplace for new cures and treatments: Any ban on cloning embryonic cells will reach beyond American borders; patients in the U.S. will be unable to access treatments developed overseas using cloned embryonic stem cells. That side effect, some predict, could be the true death knell for continued studies. If the U.S. market is off limits there?s a lot less incentive for biomedical research abroad - and considerably less hope for patients here at home...
Monday afternoon Robert Mueller began the first round of his confirmation hearings with members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Mueller, nominated to replace Louis Freeh as the top dog at the FBI, is widely expected to sail through the hearings; some insiders predict he?ll wrap up the vote by the end of the week...
...succeed, they would do best to adopt the non-violent methods of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. But there is, as yet, no one leader or organization capable of disciplining the ragtag, centrifugal anti-globalist demonstrators to nonviolence; and there is no coherent agenda. It's hard to predict what will happen, except that institutions like the World Bank, the WTO and the G-8 will change their travel plans and way of doing business: Smaller, more private meetings in secure, out-of-the-way spots. Perhaps they should fortify an island (Elba? One of the Dry Tortugas...