Word: forecasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...headed for a virtual tie in the popular vote, the rival surveys could rightly claim that they had come well within their acceptable error of 4%. Harris had Humphrey on the button, Nixon three points low. Gallup was one point low on Nixon and three on Humphrey. Both correctly forecast the Wallace vote. In the end, Gallup and Harris turned out to be reasonably accurate and had obviously restored some confidence in polls...
...Democrat Alan Cranston is far ahead of conservative Republican Max Rafferty in a battle for the seat of Thomas Kuchel, a G.O.P. liberal. Another is Connecticut, though Abe Ribicoff is being pressed unexpectedly hard by Republican Edwin May. Republicans lead in another six Senate races, with comparatively easy victories forecast...
...Long Island, Dr. George C. Cotzias tried an early, less purified form of dopa and obtained confusing results. Some patients with mild early symptoms got no better; others with more severe disease improved markedly, but in some cases the side effects, such as vomiting, were intolerably severe. Cotzias forecast that the more refined L-dopa form of the drug might be better, and manufacturers began to produce it in increasing amounts...
...spree that has kept the U.S. economy humming. As evidence that there is little real steam behind the market surge, they cite the fact that trading volume on the Big Board has slipped below its spring torrent. The bulls point to such rosy predictions as last week's forecast by the National Association of Business Economists that the economy faces only a "brief hesitation late this year and early in 1969." Moreover, say the bulls, so much money is pouring into the coffers of institutional investors that they will be forced to step up their stock purchasing. Somewhat surprisingly...
...into improved balance." Yet in almost the next breath, he told a Manhattan meeting of the National Industrial Conference Board: "If ever there is to be a year of bliss for the American economy it will not be 1969." Predicting that consumers will soon slow their heavy buying, Okun forecast a gradual slowdown of economic expansion. Along with that, he said, will come a rise in unemployment, a profit squeeze on business, and continued but smaller price increases. Painful though that prospect is, Okun and many other experts on NICB's rostrums agreed that it is the minimum price...