Word: forecasters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...improve the business climate and stimulate investment. The energy bill permits natural gas prices to rise significantly, leading to total decontrol in 1985, and meanwhile imposes the same pricing system on gas pumped and sold within a single state and fuel piped across state lines. Energy executives in Houston forecast that as a result, more gas will flow from producing states like Texas and Louisiana to homes and factories in the North and Midwest, where gas ran desperately short the past two winters...
...leader shouted, 'Let's keep going! It's better to be shot standing up than getting it in the back on the ground!' That kind of pluck would, of course, be put to better use in a peaceful Lebanon. But as a Christian militiaman grimly forecast last week, 'We are prepared to fight for the next 40 years...
...weather forecast calls for Indian summer, so the banks of the Charles might be a great place to nurse your Dartmouth-weekend hangover. The racing will be good, and you're bound to see someone you know...
...John Carberry, "some of the Cardinals from Africa live in no better conditions back in their archdioceses." So the proposal was quashed. The balloting, which begins Sunday, Oct. 15, will be in the Sistine Chapel, as it has been since 1878. That provoked Genoa's Giuseppe Siri to forecast a quick decision. "After three days, we shall all go mad," he said. "You have to be in there to understand the closed atmosphere...
Firm answers are difficult to come by; witness the Central Intelligence Agency's forays into the slippery field of oil forecasting. In his drive for a conservation-oriented energy program early last year, President Carter leaned heavily on a CIA forecast for his ominous prediction that depletion of all of the proven reserves "in the entire world" could begin by the end of the 1980s. Now comes another CIA report, this one prepared by Richard Nehring, a policy analyst for the Rand Corp., which concludes that doomsday is considerably further...