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Predictions have been made that more than 40 % of the animal and plant species in Southeast Asia could be wiped out in the 21st century.
Predictions tools made significant progress during the decade, UN-sponsored organisations such as the IPCC gained influence, and studies such as the Stern report influenced public support for paying the political and economic costs of countering climate change.
* Predictions have been made for commercial hypersonic air travel by 2050.
Predictions have often been made, from antiquity until the present, by using paranormal or supernatural means such as prophecy or by observing omens.
Predictions have been made as to how many DLNA Certified products are shipping:
Predictions from these 100 smoothers were then made across the range of the data.
Predictions made at one point in time would no longer be valid after any significant period of time had passed.
Predictions for each edition are made as far as two years in advance.

Predictions and by
Predictions of the force were later extended to finite-conductivity metals and dielectrics by Lifshitz and his students, and recent calculations have considered more general geometries.
* Eclipse Predictions and Earth's Rotation by Fred Espenak
Predictions for the Moon's Leonid impacts also noted that in 2000 the side of the Moon facing the stream was away from the Earth but that impacts should be in number enough to raise a cloud of particles kicked off the Moon by impacts would cause a detectable increase in the sodium tail of the Moon.
* 1996, Predictions of Fire ( Prerokbe Ognja )-Directed by Michael Benson
: " The previously unrelased track " Predictions of Fire " which Laibach readily contributed to this compilation functioned in an early version as background to a 1994 speech of the NSK philosopher Peter Mlakar and is followed by an ecstatic dance orgy.
The NSK were the subject of a 1996 documentary film written and directed by Michael Benson, entitled Prerokbe Ognja in Slovenian, or Predictions of Fire in English.
The NSK were the subject of a 1996 documentary film written and directed by Michael Benson, entitled Prerokbe Ognja in Slovenian, or Predictions of Fire in English.
Predictions by the engineers closely connected with it were that connecting rod failure would be the limit on this power, failing at around 5, 300 bhp.
The first of the three letters, Predictions for the Year 1708, published in January 1708, predicts, among other things, the death of Partridge by a “ raging fever .” The second letter, The Accomplishment of the First of Mr. Bickerstaff ’ s Predictions, published in March 1708, Swift writes not as Bickerstaff but as a “ man employed in the Revenue ” where he “ confirms ” the imaginary Bickerstaff ’ s prediction.
In a 1983 paperback, Wayne Coffey's 303 of the World's Worst Predictions, McGrory was falsely described as having " predicted " in her Washington Star column that George McGovern would win the 1972 presidential campaign " by a landslide ".
* Predictions by Bob Denny
The Book of Predictions was a book published in 1980 and written by David Wallechinsky, Amy Wallace, and Irving Wallace, the authors of The Book of Lists.

made and by
Rumors of the offer Tom Horn had made at the Stockgrowers' Association meeting had leaked out by then, and as a grand jury investigation of the murder got underway, the prosecuting attorney, a Colonel Baird, ordered that the tall stock detective be summoned for questioning.
Already a few hardy folk from their own train were zealously chipping away at the register rocks, leaving their own records along with those made by the earlier trains.
His earphones were constantly full of the sounds of enemy contacts made by other flights.
Johnson unwired the right hand door, whose window was, like the left one, merely loosely-taped fragments of glass, and Johnson wadded himself into a narrow seat made still more narrow by three cases of beer.
It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.
In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.
Repeated efforts -- beginning with the Missouri Compromise of 1821 -- were made by such master moderates as Clay and Douglas to resolve the difference peacefully by compromise, rather than clear thought and timely action.
To their leaders the Constitution was a compact made by the people of sovereign states, who therefore retained the right to secede from it.
Three of these only were protected from us by stern commandment: the roses, whose petals might not be collected until they had fallen, to be made into perfume or rose-tea to drink ; ;
Pale yellow snapdragons that by pinching could be made to bite ; ;
But people can't be made to integrate, socialize ( the two are inseparable by Southern standards ) by law.
Another, more interesting explanation, is hinted at by Watson when he observes on several occasions that Holmes would have made a magnificent criminal.
Since the hazards of poor communication are so great, p can be justified as a habitable site only on the basis of unusual productivity such as is made available by a waterfall for milling purposes, a mine, or a sugar maple camp.
( C ) Decisions of a general kind are made by the central command.
As a creative enterprise, its abilities are primarily in `` swallowing '' creative enterprises developed outside its own organization ( an ability made possible by us, and almost mandatory ).
Children, conditioned by this mistaken notion, have feared stepmothers, while adults, by their antagonistic attitudes, have made the role of the substitute parents a difficult one.
It recurred in the press conferences: the President's remarks about his running developed a singular tone, one which we find in few statements made by public individuals on such a matter.
A useful comment on his relation to his region may be made, I think, by noting briefly how in handling Southern materials and Southern problems he has deviated from the pattern set by other Southern authors while remaining faithful to the essential character of the region.
He is a utopian with a stake in tomorrow and he is a vulnerable human made captive by the circumstances of today.

made and Ray
It is greatly to Berman's credit that he made no attempt to outdo Ray Bolger.
Journalist Ray Martin made a documentary, Who Killed Harold Holt ?, screened in November 2007, which suggested that Holt might have committed suicide.
After the death of Ray Wallace in 2002, following a request by Loren Coleman to Seattle Times reporter Bob Young to investigate, the family of Wallace went public with claims that he had started the Bigfoot phenomenon with fake footprints ( made from a wooden foot-shaped cutout ) left in Californian sites in 1958.
Another suggestion, made by astrophysicist Ray Norris in 2000 ( and subsequently by Allen Tough ) was that gamma-ray burst events are sufficiently frequent to sterilize vast swaths of galactic real-estate.
During a visit to Australia in 1958, a similar special was made for the Australian Broadcasting Commission, " The Gladys Half-Hour ", which also featured local actors Ray Barrett, and John Bluthal, who would appear in several later Milligan projects.
As of 2008, it has sold over four million copies in the U. S. The first single, the multi-format duet " Party for Two ", made the country top ten with Billy Currington, while the pop version with Sugar Ray lead singer Mark McGrath made top ten in the United Kingdom and Germany.
Notable contributions were made by George Dantzig, Delbert Ray Fulkerson and Selmer M. Johnson at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, who expressed the problem as an integer linear program and developed the cutting plane method for its solution.
His future work would be heavily influenced by the works of such childhood heroes as Dr. Seuss and Roald Dahl, as well as Edgar Allan Poe and the horror and science fiction films he watched, such as Godzilla, and films made by Hammer Film Productions, the works of Ray Harryhausen and Vincent Price.
Little progress was made until the 1991 launch of the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory and its Burst and Transient Source Explorer ( BATSE ) instrument, an extremely sensitive gamma-ray detector.
Glenn Miller made his first movie appearance in the 1935 Paramount Pictures release The Big Broadcast of 1936 as a member of the Ray Noble Orchestra performing " Why Stars Come Out at Night ".
* Gwangi – eventually made into The Valley of Gwangi by Ray Harryhausen.
He had to face some less known challengers in this division, one exception being the famous prospect Ray Mancini ( known as " Boom Boom " Mancini ) who would later be the subject of a made for television movie.
The archive of networked programmes made by Southern Television, for example, is now owned by the Australian media company Southern Star Group ( no connection ) – but Southern's regional output is in the hands of ITV plc, whilst the few surviving tapes of Associated-Rediffusion belong to many different organisations ( the majority of Associated-Rediffusion's tapes were recorded in monochrome and therefore deemed of no use upon the arrival of colour broadcasting ; as such they were disposed of by their successor Thames Television ), although in recent years there have been occasional discoveries such as a 1959 episode of Double Your Money and the remaining missing episode of Around the World with Orson Welles, found by Ray Langstone in 2011.
* The BBC sitcom Steptoe and Son is completely intact, although approximately half of the colour episodes only exist in monochrome ; this was after copies of episodes thought to be lost were recovered in the late 1990s from early home video recordings made by writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.
Early attempts to identify relationships between major groups were made in the 19th century by Ernst Haeckel, and by comparative anatomists such as Thomas Henry Huxley and E. Ray Lankester.
The city government is made up of Mayor Darryl Ray, and a five-person city council — Danny Robinson, Hal C. Buckelew, Mark Gargus, Ross Norris, and Tim McNair and City Manager Ed Lowe
Allison and Mauldin's names were altered as Jesse Charles and Ray Bob Simmons wherein Charles is portrayed with racial attitudes, and Sullivan was written out of the film altogether which made them vote their portrayal as negative.
Kearny is part of the Ray Unified School District, made up of 3 schools: Ray High School, Ray Elementry School, and Ray Primary School.
* The song " Up Against the Wall Redneck Mother " written by Oklahoma native Ray Wylie Hubbard and famously recorded by Jerry Jeff Walker is a satire of small-town life playfully aimed at Muskogee, which is made evident in the last line of the song: " Muskogee, Oklahoma, U. S. A ."
In 1989 he made Ray Mercer look bad, losing an 8 round decision.
Ray Bradbury declared it the greatest science fiction film ever made.

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