Word: forecasters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...impact of the filmed dead on a Beirut street. This is news as spectator sport. Confident young women or quippy males in tweed jackets review plays, films and concerts they are ill-equipped to judge. Joshing between anchor man and weatherman makes it hard to remember tomorrow's forecast. The fear of boring the viewer makes the discussion of city budgets and school boards incomprehensible-as they may well have been to the "reporter" himself...
...forecast is largely based on studies conducted over the past several years by climatologists at the University of Wisconsin. They project that the world's climate, which for several decades had been ideal for agriculture, is returning to the conditions that existed from 1600 to 1850. That period was a "Little Ice Age" characterized by lower temperatures, shorter growing seasons and periods of famine...
...campaigning. Carter studied voting trends and population patterns in all 435 congressional districts; The plan called for entering all of the primaries and caucuses on the assumption that he could create enough momentum in the early contests to breeze through the later ones. It was an amazingly accurate forecast of what indeed happened...
...settling a two-day strike, a Teamsters' contract that may raise wages and benefits 33% over the next three years. Moreover, the rubber companies are expected to increase their profits by perhaps 33% this year, thanks to the growth in auto production. Firestone President Richard Riley has forecast a 23% growth in worldwide sales of original-equipment tires...
There was little doubt that Gould's forecast was responsible for the sell-off-which caused some embarrassment for Gould's employer, the New York firm of Anametrics, Inc., an investment advisory service. Clients who pay $500 annually for Gould's opinions were upset to receive them only after they had been acted on by other investors who read summaries of Gould's advice in the newspapers for a few cents. Anametrics Chairman Steven A. Greenberg hurriedly mailed letters to clients denying leaks to journalists and pointing out that Gould's advice should have come...