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  • The nicotine found in toenails was not so much a "predicter" - of heart disease, but a big clue that the test subjects had been exposed, unknowingly, to residues of any number of tobacco pesticides, and to the dioxin and other harmful non-tobacco cigarette constituents in the smoke from the chlorinated residues and paper.

    Our Stolen Evidence...Against the Pesticide/Dioxin Cartel 2008

  • “I would imagine age is probably a better predicter than anything else,” Mann said.

    Older Members of Congress Perplexed by ATM Machines | Impact Lab 2010

  • So if we look to the past as any predicter, we expect this to be a days, not week-long process.

    CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2007 2007

  • I have no problem with a full reversal, and I think cert is absolutely likely act of congress declared unconstitutional is already a strong predicter.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Religious Endorsement Case Heading to the Supreme Court? 2007

  • From the Mind of Manxom Vroom: Best-selling title predicter.

    Best-selling title predicter. Jeff 2006

  • As you point out, it can be problematic when a model is accepted because of its simplicity in spite of of empirical data which points out that the model is a poor predicter.

    Verification r2 Revealed!!! « Climate Audit 2006

  • He groped about for some answer that could be phrased in their language, letting his mind flicker from the modern electronic gadgets back to the old-time tide predicter.

    The Sky Is Falling Lester Del Rey 1954

  • Utilizing these principles, a very elementary form of tidal-clock, or tide-predicter, can be made, and for an open coast station it really would not give the tides so very badly.

    Pioneers of Science Oliver Lodge 1895

  • These ten values are then set off into a third machine, the tide-predicter proper.

    Pioneers of Science Oliver Lodge 1895

  • It is not an easy matter to do this, but it can be, and has been, done; and a tide-predicter has not only been constructed, but two of them are in regular work, predicting the tides for years hence -- one, the property of the Indian Government, for coast stations of

    Pioneers of Science Oliver Lodge 1895

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