Word: foresaw
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Neither side can get what it wants without 100 per cent cooperation from all the allies, and it is obvious that neither side has that," he said. He foresaw a period of stalemate in America's relationship with Europe, with the Common Market evolving somewhat in the direction de Gaulle favors...
...funds and pension funds moved back into the stock market (though badly singed small investors continued to spend their money elsewhere), and the market recouped 55% of its $96 billion paper loss. The mood in business changed profoundly: instead of looking for a sharp recession in 1963. most economists foresaw only a slight dip in the first half, and some predicted an unbroken rise...
Manhattan Economist J. Carvel Lange, who a year ago correctly foresaw that the stock market was "highly vulnerable to a sharp reaction before mid-1962" now predicted a bullish 1963 if a sizable tax cut comes in time. "For maximum effectiveness for growth," said Lange, "the reduction must come while the economy is still rising." If the tax cut is enacted by midyear, he predicted a "strong?perhaps booming?acceleration" that would last well into...
Political soothsayers predicted Thomas E. Dewey's election in 1948 and foresaw H. Stuart Hughes' candidacy cutting into Democrat Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy's vote total in the 1962 Massachusetts senatorial race. Their level of accuracy apparently hasn't improved much in 14 years...
...about Cuba had more to do with the election than with the progress of the cold war with Russia, and he rather liked the idea; it was the kind of thing that the old man might have done himself. Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss took a different view, worriedly foresaw a cynical deal trading off bases between the U.S. and Russia, which would weaken his own long-range goal to obtain nuclear missiles for West Germany. With Strauss, Adenauer peered at the photographs of the Russian installations in Cuba. Actually, said some knowledgeable Bonn hands, der Alte wouldn...