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Future predictions Future predictions
FUTUROLOGY. Futurology is the study of the future to obtain knowledge of it on the basis of present trends. Beginning in the 1960s, it is a relatively new field of study. The word futurology was first used in 1943 by Ossip Flechteim, a political scientist, to describe a new scientific field of... Read more
Contango Contango
Contango BIBLIOGRAPHY The term contango refers to a case where the futures price exceeds the expected future spot price of the underlying commodity. Futures prices are the prices of futures contracts for the commodity. Expected future spot prices are the prices of the commodity in the spot... Read more
Vest Vest
VEST To give an immediate, fixed right of present or future enjoyment. The term vest is significant in the law, because it means that a person has an absolute right to some present or future interest in something of value. When a right has vested, the person is legally entitled to what has been... Read more
Weather Forecasting Weather Forecasting
Weather forecasting Weather forecasting is the attempt by meteorologists to predict the state of the atmosphere at some future time and the weather conditions that may be expected. Weather forecasting is the single most important practical reason for the existence of meteorology as a science.... Read more
Rehearsal Rehearsal
Rehearsal Mental activities associated with committing information to memory. Rehearsal is a term used by memory researchers to refer to mental techniques for helping us remember information. Its technical meaning is not very different from our everyday use of the term. Actors rehearse their... Read more
Reversion Reversion
REVERSION Any future interest kept by a person who transfers property to another. A reversion occurs when a property owner makes an effective transfer of property to another but retains some future right to the property. For example, if Sara transfers a piece of property to Shane for life, Shane... Read more
Nicholas P. Negroponte Nicholas P. Negroponte
NEGROPONTE, NICHOLAS Computer-aided design expert Nicholas Negroponte is the founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Laboratory, a leading $35 million research facility funded by MIT itself and several governmental bodies, as well as by more than 175 corporations across the... Read more
Richard Allen Posner Richard Allen Posner
POSNER, RICHARD ALLEN "[A] pragmatic approach [to lawisone] that is practical and instrumental rather than essentialist—interested in what works and what is useful rather than in what 'really' is. It is therefore forward-looking, valuing continuity with the past only so far as such... Read more
Arnold Joost van Keppel 1st earl of Albemarle Arnold Joost van Keppel 1st earl of Albemarle
Arnold Joost van Keppel Albemarle, 1st earl of , 1669-1718, Dutch adherent and constant companion of William III of England. He accompanied the future king to England (1688) and was made an earl in 1696. After William's death (1702), he returned to Dutch service and fought in the War of the Spanish... Read more
Wonderland Wonderland
705. Wonderland (See also Heaven, Paradise, Utopia.) Annwn land of joy and beauty without disease or death. [Welsh Lit.: Mabinogion ] Atlantis fabulous and prosperous island; legendarily in Atlantic Ocean. [Gk. Myth.: Leach, 89] Avalon island where dead King Arthur was carried. [Arth.... Read more

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