Word: forecasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cent increase in plant and equipment investment has been forecast for this year and such predictions are traditionally...
Indeed they were. Only the day before, the Prime Minister had done what his party had hoped he would. Capitalizing on the average Briton's unparalleled prosperity and Labor's soaring popularity, he called a general election for March 31. The Gallup poll forecast that Wilson would win a 165-seat majority in the 630-seat House. London bookies made Labor a 6-to-1 favorite...
...course, a landslide victory had also been forecast for Harold Wilson's Laborites 17 months ago. Instead, they barely broke 13 years of Tory rule, taking office with only a five-seat majority-a margin that now stands at a mere three. In that election, Wilson's fortunes had not been helped by his reputation as the voice of Labor's left and as a scheming opportunist. Labor's current confidence is largely the result of Wilson's emergence as something far different...
Emphasizing their new "language of truth," the Soviet planners admitted that the good life is still a good way off. By 1970 they expect the Soviet national income to be up 85% from 1960-impressive, but still only half of the Khrushchev goal. Where Khrushchev forecast an annual electric-power capacity of 950 billion kw-h by 1970, the new five-year plan predicts 840 billion kwh. Over the same period, steel production is supposed to climb to 124 million tons a year (v. Khrushchev's 145 million tons), oil production to 355 million tons a year (v. Khrushchev...
Social and political changes are far harder to forecast than technological ones. Futurists are earnestly considering all kinds of worries: the possible failure of underdeveloped countries to catch up with the dazzling future, the threat of war, the prospect of supergovernment. Today's "New Left" predicts the need for political movements to break up big organization. But the skeptics are plainly in the minority. Some futurists, like Buckminster Fuller, believe that amid general plenty, politics will simply fade away. Others predict that an increasingly homogenized world culture-it has been called "the culture bomb"-will increase international amity, although...