Word: forecaster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which the amount of oxygen on earth might disastrously decline. Other scientists fret that rising carbon dioxide will prevent heat from escaping into space. They foresee a hotter earth that could melt the polar icecaps, raise oceans as much as 400 ft., and drown many cities. Still other scientists forecast a colder earth (the recent trend) because man is blocking sunlight with ever more dust, smog and jet contrails. The cold promises more rain and hail, even a possible cut in world food. Whatever the theories may be, it is an established fact that three poisons now flood the landscapes...
...then the Government would have to decide whether to use force on the marchers. And if such a decision is not forced upon the Government over the campsite issue, it may still come at any time afterward, over the non-violent civil disobedience which Abernathy has forecast for the Campaign...
Most small countries, too, from The Netherlands to Sweden, have nervously watched their economies follow the lead of their best customer. And now the future looks more secure. Swedish economists, for example, are upping their forecast from 3.5% to 4% growth for 1968, despite a tight lid on wage increases and new construction...
Nelson Goodman, named Professor of Philosophy, is at the present time an outstanding contemporary philosopher and Research Associate at Harvard's Graduate School of Education. His two books, The Structure of Appearance and Fact, Fiction, and Forecast appeared...
Sonny Eliot is the first to concede that his show is an "act," and like most TV weathermen, he survives more by force of personality than prognostication. In fact, weathermen draw their information largely, if not exclusively, from the same sources; as a result' when one local forecaster advises wearing galoshes, they all do. Their radarscopes and satellite photographs are diverting if not confusing, but once they get around to giving the forecast, most weathermen are about 85% accurate...