Word: forecast
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...fact, the films are often as interesting for what they forecast as what they express. Working in the 30s. Mary Ellen Bute was one of the first to use electronic imagery in film. The spinning, dancing line of her "Mood Contrasts" (1953) seems to embody the music which propels it in a manner reminiscent of the pulsing equalizers which inhabit so many videos. Bute especially wanted to make music visual, to give, as she states in "Rhythm and Light," "a modern artist's impression of what goes on in the mind while listening to music." Bute's witty...
Drugan predicted about 45 percent of registered voters will take to the polls if the weather is good. Today's weather forecast calls for afternoon showers and a high of around...
...ever was the 1990 takeover of Saks Fifth Avenue. When Investcorp bought the prestigious chain, it was evidently hoping to repeat its triumph with Tiffany. Investcorp certainly promoted Saks to its clients that way. A 1990 private-placement memo to Arab clients obtained by TIME contains an extremely bullish forecast on the first page: Saks was expected to produce an investment return of 25.9% a year, and was likely to be sold within four years. One reason Investcorp failed to repeat its Tiffany coup with Saks is that the $1.6 billion purchase price was $200 million to $300 million...
...Undergraduate Council's first-ever campus-wide gala ball approaches, its financial forecast is appearing much brighter...
...though nobody has a handle on the underlying dynamics, the link between far-flung weather patterns and the North American hurricane season appears solid. Indeed, for the past 12 years, Gray has routinely used El Nino, Sahel rainfall and other factors to make impressively accurate predictions. Last October he forecast 12 major tropical storms for 1995, and in early August he upped the number to 16, just five storms shy of the record set in 1933 and more than double the number in 1994. "People thought we'd gone crazy," says Gray. "Now it appears we probably undershot...