Word: forecasted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...internal defeats and victories (Mondale won the first debate, Reagan tied the second, and so on), and yet by definition it was all inconclusive, conjectural, a pageant of popular mood capable of changing like the weather. Theoretically capable, anyway. The pollsters monitored the isobars and issued a unanimous forecast: Mondale would be inundated...
...chairman of the Carter Hawley Hale department-store chain, which includes Neiman-Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman: "Going into the all-important holiday season, consumer confidence to us looks good. It's close to its alltime high." Hawley predicted, however, a slower rate of retail buying next year. That forecast was supported by the council report, which sees consumer spending moving ahead by only 2.5%, compared with this year's 6% gain...
...help that forecast come true, most of the chief executives favor a second Reagan term and a budget-balancing strategy based more on spending reductions than tax increases. "I've got an instinctive feeling," said Exxon Chairman Clifton Garvin, who currently chairs the Business Council, "that if you give Congress a lot more money from those taxes Walter Mondale wants, we're going to wind up spending it." Summed up United Technologies' Gray: "The kind of program the President has started really can't be accomplished in four years. They've made some impressive gains...
What the polls forecast was a showdown between two of the country's top 10 teams...
...novel opens, the Soviets are about to buy an American supercomputer, a so-called Craig 1, from France, ostensibly to help them forecast the weather on the steppes of Siberia. In fact, the Soviets intend to use the machine, one of the world's most powerful, to get into Western data banks that contain American military and technological secrets. Rather than objecting to the supercomputer sale, U.S. intelligence officials decide to capitalize on it. They dispatch an M.I.T. scientist to Paris to plant a "softbomb," or programmed booby trap, in the computer's meteorologic software...