Word: forecasts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pirates won a tight one that night, the forecast rain never fell, and the fireworks after the game were spectacular...
...workers that is a bad news-good news forecast. Unemployment will rise from the 28-year low of 4.3%, touched in April, to perhaps 5% next year. But employers will still be beating the bushes for every worker they can find, if a bit less feverishly than today. And wages will be pushed up faster than prices...
...checked, but even many of the suspect ones are programmed with manual overrides or "soft-landing" outcomes where safety is an issue. (Nonetheless, the Gartner Group estimates that litigation costs over Y2K service and product failures, both real and imagined, could soar to $1 trillion or more.) Duggan's forecast for the impact of Jan. 1, 2000, sounds like a tolerable weather report: "It's going to be like a couple of inches of snow that stays on the ground for a few days...
...subcontinent. Had Harry Truman imagined this circumstance? At the time he made the fateful but valiant decision to nuke Japan, President Truman was controlling what he hoped to be the denouement of a most horrendous global conflict. Though he was initiating the nuclear age, he could not possibly have forecast the dissemination of nuclear know-how to countries which at the time were still under the domain of the late British Empire. Even the Soviets were still in the dark as to the workings of America's newest weapon...
...political base, nor can he necessarily count on the long-term backing of the powerful military. Economists and stock analysts around Asia question Habibie's ability to bring sensible change to Indonesia's choking economy--his big-spending statist policies are anathema to the International Monetary Fund--and politicians forecast continuing turmoil as secular and religious groups compete for influence now that Suharto's strong restraining hand has been lifted...