Word: forecasted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wicker of the New York Times forecast that concern over Administration designs on Social Security would drive many Republican-leaning elderly voters into the Democratic camp. And David Broder of the Washington Post performed an uncharacteristic double swerve: after ruminating two weeks before the election about "a landslide that may never land," he trumpeted six days before the voting that Democrats were "in striking range of control of the Senate." He then backed off four days later and guessed, correctly, that a standoff was the probable Senate result. As a group the commentators were like generals fighting the previous...
...Caddell forecast a gain of 25 to 30 seats in the House, where there are now 242 Democrats and 191 Republicans...
...increases in mid-August, budgetary red ink remains a key concern. Alice Rivlin, director of the Congressional Budget Office, said that analyses done by her staff show a deficit climbing to $155 billion by next year and staying at about that level until 1985. This compares with an earlier forecast indicating that if no action were taken by Congress, the deficit would increase to more than $230 billion...
...more justly claim a tradition of shrewd analysis and lively if eccentric writing. Indeed, the paper and its weekly sister publication originated the technique, now widely imitated by general-interest dailies, of scrutinizing the box-office record of a film in its all-important opening days in order to forecast its ultimate success. But the price of that insider knowledge can be excessive coziness. Entertainment Reporter Dale Pollock of the Los Angeles Times says he was sternly reprimanded in a former job at Variety for picking up the tab for lunch with industry executives. He explains: "The paper said that...
...spite of the accuracy of the poem's forecast, Sy is still bewildered by his latest crime. He is now doing six to twelve for the attempted murder of his "lady" in Poughkeepsie. After serving time for the robbery conviction, he began to work with delinquent teenagers, but he got into trouble there too, fighting with the authorities over their rough handling of the kids. "They told me: Everybody does it. I told them: / don't do it. I'm part of everybody." He lost that job and "drank and drank." Then he lost his lady...