Word: forecasts
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Later research, however, has not borne out his forecast. In a new study called Still a Dream, Sar A. Levitan, William B. Johnston and Robert Taggart concluded that "the weight of the evidence seems to suggest that integration in the schools can make small improvements in black I.Q. and achievement." Still other researchers find the evidence too contradictory to support any overall findings...
...short-range forecast of a healthy though hardly exuberant recovery is supported by reports from businessmen round the country; generally they are pleased with the first signs of revival, though many are impatient for more substantial evidence that activity has picked up. "It looks like a slower than normal recovery," says Chicago Banker Edward Boss. The brightest portent so far is department-and specialty-store sales, which have spurted rapidly in recent weeks. In Boston, Filene's and other stores with fancy boutiques are getting a healthy run from shoppers, many willing...
...only prepared to discuss the demands of the developing states but also has specific and detailed ideas for meeting them. The long list of U.S. proposals−if backed and funded by all the industrial and oil-rich nations−could equal the Marshall Plan in impact. As forecast (TIME, Sept. 8), the speech avoided flashy or hostile rhetoric. It warned that there are "no panaceas" and stressed a "program of practical steps." Among them...
...Right Jack" era of union truculence might be over. The optimism is probably premature. The social conflicts that underlie Britain's labor problems are nowhere near being resolved, and the budding spirit of union self-sacrifice may well prove too fragile to withstand the forecast winter of continued inflation...
...that moment of new beginnings in 1945-46, when millions of veterans returned home from World War II to resume peacetime living. For many, the G.I. Bill made possible the previously elusive dream of a college education. The economy did not suffer the grave postwar slump that experts had forecast. Despite gathering doubts about Russia, most Americans had an optimistic faith in the twin security of their nuclear monopoly and the new United Nations, where the big powers would work together to guarantee the peace. That was a brief, sunny interval indeed. Just a year later came the cold...