Word: forecasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...predictions of ecological disaster, none have sounded more persuasive-or alarming-than those put forth last year under the banner of the prestigious Club of Rome. Based on computer projections of the present rate of population and industrial growth, a team of scientists at M.I.T. forecast massive economic collapse and global epidemics by the end of the 21st century. Last month another computer specialist sharply disputed that gloomy outlook. Writing in the British publication Nature, he reported that the computer programs used by the M.I.T. group contain a simple but highly significant "typographical error" that drastically alters their doomsday projections...
...revolutionary violence. Should Popular Unity have crushed the truck-owners strike when it began, locked up or if necessary killed those fearful businessmen of principled rectitude, and then outlawed and rounded up the rest of the opposition? In retrospect, the answer seems to be yes, but who can forecast the future...
Chances are better than excellent (and mind you, this is not the National Weather Bureau forecast) that SDS will try to sell you a Challenge, that someone from PBH will attempt to enlist your support for any of its several programs, that you'll be asked to fill out a form for a sports events ticket book, and that The Crimson will be on hand to push both its daily and the Confi Guide...
...earth tremor, which occurred in the Blue Mountain Lake region of the Adirondack Mountains of New York State, was forecast by Yash Aggarwal, 33, a seismologist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory. Aggarwal and another Lament scientist, Lynn Sykes, began to study the Blue Mountain Lake area two years ago, intrigued by the fact that in a generally calm region it experienced frequent small tremors. In mid-July, when two moderate quakes jolted the area, Aggarwal and colleagues from Lamont set up seven portable seismographs in addition to a permanent station already in place. For two weeks...
Geophysicist Gordon Greene, of the U.S. Geological Survey, was equally enthusiastic. He had been with Sykes when Aggarwal phoned in his forecast and had driven to Blue Mountain Lake just in time for the quake. "If you can do this three times," he told Aggarwal, "you will all be famous...