Word: forecasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...statement is about as absurd as any forecast, because in Ivy League football the oddsmaker is more our common enemy than our mutual friend
John Murphy, Thad McNulty and Reed Eichner form the core of the men's cross-country unit, and they will have to register impressive performances if the harriers are to live up to coach Bill McCurdy's glowing forecast. The squad debuts, along with the junior varsity, today at Franklin Park, where it will take on Northeastern...
...withstanding 120-m.p.h. winds, it offers no safeguards against storm "surges," the walls of water a hurricane pushes in front of it. And building codes elsewhere are less strict. The risk to life and property, say officials, is still considerable despite giant leaps in the art of weather forecasting. Such is the wildly unpredictable nature of hurricanes that the National Hurricane Center in Coral Gables gives itself a 100-mile margin of error on a 24-hour forecast...
...West Germany, Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's Social Democratic government, supported by powerful but reasonable trade unions, has largely held a noninterventionist course and ignored demands that the government cut taxes or raise spending every time a troubling economic forecast is issued. Result: West Germany's inflation rate is one-third as steep as the U.S.'s, its unemployment rate is only slightly over half as high, and the country's living standards are rising...
...White House last month. Real G.N.P. is expected to drop 1.4% this year. Because the recession will hang on through next spring instead of ending late in 1979 or very early in 1980, real growth next year will be no higher than 1.1%, instead of the 2% forecast earlier. Finally, inflation will continue to rage at 11% through the end of the year and average close to 9% next year...