Word: forecasts
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James A. Bill, 40, is associate director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas and a top U.S. scholar on Iran, which he visits frequently. Bill forecast the Shah's downfall long before the fact, and has been mentioned as a possible U.S. Ambassador to Iran...
...about it, joking that King Faisal's picture would soon be on all the oil storage tanks along the New Jersey Turnpike. That instinct proved to be all too prescient." The board's latest predictions are summarized in this week's Economy & Business section. One forecast is not included, though the board is unanimous about it: Economics Editor Loeb is in no danger of an energy shortage...
These are the basic forecasts of TIME'S ten-member Board of Economists, which met for a day in Manhattan last week. Each member acknowledged that predictions are particularly chancy in these mercurial tunes, and that any seemingly logical forecast could be thrown off by a severe oil crisis or some unforeseen event...
...disintegration of the Middle Ages too far. Nonetheless, a few tantalizing similarities exist between then and now, among them the revival of millenarian sects and predictions about the world's end. Psychics and E.S.P. fanciers, for instance, have dusted off the 1934 predictions of Edgar Cayce: he forecast upheavals at the poles, the sinking of most of Japan into the sea, and the destruction of Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York. In his recent book We Are the Earthquake Generation, Jeffrey Goodman explains that the latterday mystics are generally agreed that worldwide destruction will occur between...
...colleagues have been sending radio signals past the rim of the sun, bouncing them off other planets and clocking their return to earth to an accuracy of better than a millionth of a second. The object: to see if solar gravity slows the signals down by the amount forecast by Einstein. So far, general relativity has passed these and other tests without exception. Says Yale Physicist Feza Gursey: "Einstein's theories tend to become stronger with time...