Word: forecasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...violation of three treaties, border guards then prevented two other West German members of Parliament from entering the East. At the same time, many motorists seeking to drive into West Berlin via the East German Autobahn were being halted and subjected to searches by Communist police. The political forecast was for one of the sharpest freezes in relations between East and West Germany since the two states established diplomatic ties five years...
...independence is not high-minded statesmanship but an old-fashioned desire to take positions that will play well in their districts. With elections coming up in November, a lot of members will be more cautious this session, particularly since there is no national consensus on many key issues. Experts forecast only a moderately productive session, with a number of important matters?among them, national health insurance and reform of the tax and welfare systems?postponed in a rush to adjourn by Oct. 1 so that legislators can concentrate on campaigning. Says House Republican Leader John Rhodes of Arizona: "Nobody wants...
...just had it. I'm voting against it," Steven J. Rosenbaum, a first-year law student, said yesterday, in response to today's weather forecast...
...ground, snow in the forecast. Fenway Park, Wrigley Field, Yankee Stadium closed for the season. Faced with such spiritual deprivation, Cato fell on his sword and Ishmael shipped out to sea. Baseball buffs have a better way of alleviating off-season angst. Like fundamentalists who find solace in Scripture, they take down their own holy writ entitled The Baseball Encyclopedia. Impervious to time and temperature, the good book returns readers to baseball's Jurassic era, when teams were owned by individuals rather than conglomerates, when the game was played on vegetation instead of plastic, when professionals...
...economy may be chugging along nicely, but much of the rest of the world is close to a new recession. That was the sobering message of a report on 1977 and forecast for 1978 published last week in Paris by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The OECD's words carry weight because its 24 member countries make up just about the whole non-Communist industrial world...