Word: forecast
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...apparently, any more realistic than -- well, George Bush's prediction three years ago of a balance by fiscal 1993. In fact, Bush's final budget reveals that during his Administration the deficit nearly doubled, rising to an expected $327.3 billion in fiscal 1993 -- the current year. Forecast for fiscal 1997: $305 billion, or $68 billion more than the White House estimated only five months ago -- and even that is based on a ludicrously optimistic assumption about what Congress will do. Chances that Clinton can fulfill his pledge: zero...
Prognosticators in and out of the press always have something to say about what will happen, and we should periodically check the record. Thankfully enough, many of the things they forecast never actually happen...
...atmospheric shield. Updating the timetable known as the Montreal Protocol, delegates at a United Nations conference in Copenhagen moved up elimination of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and carbon tetrachloride to 1996, four years ahead of schedule. Halons and methyl chloroform will be banned earlier too, in 1994 and 1996, respectively. Researchers forecast more skin cancer as the ozone layer disappears...
...Fuel costs for the Faculty were lower than expected, since the budget forecast was prepared early in the Gulf War, according to Knowles...
...leadership, debates have been about as reliable a predictive tool as newspaper horoscopes. In 1960 neither Kennedy nor Nixon hinted at the looming U.S. involvement in Vietnam. In four debates, they fielded only two questions on civil rights. In 1980 Ronald Reagan got off scot-free when he confidently forecast that his economic elixir of tax cuts and defense hikes would miraculously produce "a balanced budget by 1983, if not earlier." At least in 1988 Ann Compton of ABC deserved credit for pressing George Bush: "Isn't the phrase 'no new taxes' misleading the voters?" With mangled syntax, Bush responded...