Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...notion that forecasting itself is suspect in turbulent times. There are many important uncertainties, none of the forecasters has been endowed with a crystal ball, and the resulting forecasts disguise rather than illuminate the critical uncertainties. Facing such circumstances, Royal Dutch/Shell has scrapped the notion of forecasting in favor of scenarios as a basis for evaluating the future. And unlike most other large firms which tried scenario planning, Shell has made it work successfully. I would like to borrow from their scheme to consider the prospects for the second term of the Reagan Administration...
...this stage, a Las Vegas gambler with a high technology crystal ball and the latest software might be forgiven for giving about 2 to I odds in favor of the stalemate scenario. But then, a Wall Street analyst convinced that the market was due to rise all but one year the superbow I has correctly foretold the course of the market for the year...
...expected to filter back into Kampuchea, but the Vietnamese have made public statements indicating that they intend a permanent occupation of the border region, depriving the guerrillas of their comfortable zone of sanctuary. If the K.P.N.L.F. intends to fight on, it will probably have to abandon static defenses in favor of more classic guerrilla tactics, dispersing its strength and moving deeper into the Kampuchean countryside. Said one analyst in Thailand: "If you're going to be a proper guerrilla, you can't be protecting large, fixed bodies of civilians...
...appointment to the sensitive West Wing position, at age 66, climaxes a stint in Washington marked by ups and downs as jagged as any appearing on the stock charts he analyzed at Merrill Lynch for 34 years, the last ten of them as chief executive. Though never out of favor with the President, Regan saw his credibility on Capitol Hill and in the business community plunge after the recession of 1981-82, when he stubbornly insisted that the economy would come "roaring back" in the near future and stage "one of the greatest recoveries in history." Critics charge that...
When Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov, 67, was abruptly removed as Chief of Staff and Deputy Defense Minister last September, it was widely assumed that he had fallen out of favor with the Kremlin. The first official indication of his new standing came in an obituary for Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov, which was published on Dec. 22. Ogarkov's name appeared in the tenth of 17 rows of official signatures. Said a Western diplomat in Moscow: "He must be in about a third-echelon position...