Word: guess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deficit for fiscal 1977 could wind up as much as $10 billion below the $68 billion officially projected. Reason: the spending shortfalls that first showed up in the budget last year are continuing. No one is certain why the Government is spending less than it had expected. One guess is that agencies had overestimated how rapidly the prices of the things they buy would rise, and asked for more money than they can spend in the time allotted...
...force in the burgeoning market for recreational vehicles-campers, trailers and motor homes. Last year Midas reported $225 million in sales, a 39% increase, to its corporate parent, IC Industries, Inc., the company that owns the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad. Midas' earnings are not reported separately, but analysts guess they may be about $23 million annually, pretax. Midas President Ralph Weiger, 52, will not confirm that, but he does say dollar earnings in 1976 were five times as large as two years earlier...
...simple commands of the voices. The growing use of the written word helped undermine the unquestioned authority of the godlike voices. Some of the last utterances of the gods, written down, became the beginning of law. Jaynes is vague about how consciousness arose to replace the voices. His best guess: man was somehow jolted into awareness by social chaos. Vast migrations, invasions and natural catastrophes finally "drove the wedge of consciousness between god and man," says Jaynes. "Man became modern...
...guess I'm being selfish, but I just don't want to live up at the Quad, and the plan makes it more likely that I'll live there, Ann W. Oppenlander '80 said yesterday, adding that "It's too removed and too quiet...
...Governor's Commission on the Status of Women, summed up Harvard's attitude toward women when she stated that the 1960's was "a time when then-Harvard President Nathan Pusey could declare that Harvard could accept no additional women because Harvard's job was to train leaders, and guess who that didn't mean." F. Skiddy von Stade, dean of Freshmen, later said of women in the 1969 strike, "they were so insolent, the worst of the bunch. At least you have to respect the boys a little since they have something riding on this. The thing is Vietnam...