Word: forecasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since man first appeared on this planet, he has been at the mercy of earthquakes, which over the ages have devastated wide areas and killed millions of people. While scientists may never learn to prevent quakes, they may soon be able to forecast them accurately, giving inhabitants a chance to flee a threatened area in time. Early this month, for the first time, scientists predicted an earthquake-and then felt it rumble beneath their feet right on schedule...
Indeed, it would be unfortunate if the economic rivalry led to a round of imprecations and protectionism. As the Nixon Administration's difficulties with Europe amply attest, the American challenge never did lead to the political domination that the French forecast in the 1960s. Instead, the U.S. commercial migration has yielded some healthy dividends, including new management and marketing techniques. By aiming to sell to the quarter-billion people who constitute the Common Market, the hard-hustling Japanese are likely to have a bracing impact as well on Europe's business...
...Army Corps of Engineers in an attempt to reopen hearings on the project. And Con Ed, while maintaining that the pumped storage plant is still needed, has begun to move toward alternatives and has removed Storm King from its ten year plan, scheduling it now for its 20 year forecast...
Pitching for Princeton is not as gloomy as the hitting outlook, but the forecast is far from rosy. "Our pitchers came back from our southern trip with horrendous ERAs," Stryker said. "To make it worse, as our pitching improves and the staff ERA goes down, so does the team batting average...
...open-minded attitude toward learning such skills as welding and carpentry instead of, or along with, philosophy and history. The Bureau of Labor Statistics has estimated that only 20% of the jobs in the 1970s will require education beyond high school. Yet the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education forecast last week that two-thirds of America's high school graduates will be continuing their schooling. Already, according to the commission, nearly 30% of male graduates of four-year colleges are in blue-collar, sales and clerical jobs. There seems likely to be even more serious underemployment of talent...