Word: forecaster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, on the eve of the annual Miami-to-Nassau powerboat race, billed as "the most rugged ocean race in the world," the forecast was for 15-to 22-knot winds and steep seas with 2-ft. to 6-ft. crests. "Good," said Bertram. "In rough weather, everything comes into play-hull design, engines, even the crew. The question is whether the crew can take the pounding...
...statistical studies next fall confirm this forecast, the class will have a 57-43 public school-private school ratio and average college board aptitude scores hovering around the 700 mark...
...huge question mark hangs over the Yard. It is still too early and many of the squads have practiced too little--to forecast how most freshman teams will do this spring...
...Charleston, S.C., the News & Courier, swallowing its disappointment over its idol Barry Goldwater's indifferent showing, found room to rejoice, after a fashion, over the emergence of Lodge. Said that paper, in what was surely the weirdest political forecast of the year: "The size of Mr. Lodge's write-in vote, compared to the Democratic write-in for Robert F. Kennedy, suggests to us a Johnson-Lodge combination...
Government economists expect capital budgets to grow by 8% to 10%, moving into the $42 billion area, but many private economists forecast that the final figure will be higher. Rising even 8%, capital spending would expand faster than either consumer spending, Government outlays, or exports-and thus become the most buoyant force in the U.S. economy...