Word: forecasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hand, at least one bright spot. Hereafter the nervous declarer will no longer be forced to hesitate between a trump and a discard while his agonized dummy, who has seen both the other hands, twitches spasmodically across the table; and their will be considerably less recklessness when one can forecast accurately whether one's opponent is about to down four of a kind, or merely two pairs...
Conditions of Loan. The conditions under which J. P. Morgan & Co. loaned $100,000,000 were forecast by a cabled statement from the Governor of the Bank of France, pledging the French Government...
...second or guerilla stage of the Mexican Civil War was definitely be- gun and no hope of an early peace was forecast...
...Francisco-scored the common practice of holding "anniversary" and other "bargain" sales, as a form of "super-stimulation" which fails of profit, lowers business standards, undermines public confidence. To some extent, Mr. Neistadt declared, clearance sales are a necessary part of merchandising, since no merchant can exactly forecast his requirements and is, therefore, bound to have some goods left over which can be sold at cut prices. But retailers use these goods as a nucleus only; they go out and buy other merchandise to put with them, and use various deceptive devices to make the public think it is getting...
...Recognition of Mexico by Britain was forecast...