Word: forecast
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...weekend for which a light dusting was forecast, a good four inches fell on Quogue. They wouldn't call four inches snow in places like Butte and Fargo, but on the southern shore of eastern Long Island the amount is impressive. It makes a sudden New England of an area that, in fact, was settled before most of New England, in the mid-17th century. The steep roofs of the New England-like houses are lathered with snow, and the surprisingly tall pines are shagged with ice, the way they get in Vermont. The main difference is the beach; there...
...dollars in bad loans triggered by the collapse of the real estate market. Moreover, instead of promoting growth, officials have taken the bizarre step of boosting taxes this year. It's little wonder that the government now sees the economy growing 1.9% in 1997, the first time the official forecast has fallen below 2% since the 1940s...
...judgment is large enough, he may well declare bankruptcy. He would be likely to lose his home on Rockingham and perhaps his property in San Francisco. He would probably have 25% of his income attached for at least the next 20 years. It is difficult to forecast his future earnings, but Simpson's public image and celebrity still have market value. He has already earned $3 million from a combination of sales of his book I Want to Tell You, of postacquittal photos to the Star tabloid and foreign publications, and of various sports promotions, including cards and statues...
...some of them were hunkered down in this Seattle hotel room. The participants belonged to the 1,500-member Color Marketing Group, the Virginia-based color cartel that has held a largely unknowing public under its sway for more than 30 years. It was the CMG that forecast avocado refrigerators in the late '60s and mauve motel rooms in the '70s and hunter-green automobiles in the '90s. And it was the CMG that predicted the 1996 consumer palette would be, in the words of former president Laraine Turner, "kissed by the yellow...
WILLIS ("GOOD NEWS") GEBHARDT, folklore forecaster Forecast: "Colder than a well-digger's wallet...Snow will be frequently heavy, and winter will come on quicker than a duck on a June bug." Methodology: Woolly bear caterpillars. Analyzing the thickness of the coat and the size of the critter's dark-colored ends, the centenarian made his forecast at the 24th annual Woollybear Festival in Vermilion, Ohio, in October...