Word: predict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This difficulty, he said, might be solved through the establishment of a uniform system of cost analysis which would enable contractors to predict accurately the cost per square fot for any building...
...battle for ears may not be decided for years. Though the local programmers are riding high now, the networks' optimists predict that the locals will sooner or later run all their bad things into the ground. But it may be later than sooner...
...will travel to New York and back as a floating art show on the S.S. Liberté, then will be auctioned off for charity. Whether the culture-in-the-kitchen movement would catch on, not even the cool heads at General Motors (France)-who supplied the Frigidaires-cared to predict. Pablo Picasso had an opinion on the subject. Asked to contribute to the show, Picasso had refused. He wouldn't want to use anything but white paint on a refrigerator, he said, "so why bother...
...name of Diffusion Indexes of Business Indicators. The indexes, compiled by the National Bureau of Economic Research, are becoming widely used by major corporations and such top economists as Dr. Raymond J. Saulnier, head of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, and his predecessor, Arthur Burns, to predict the course of the economy. Last week the diffusion indexes gave a signal that the economy had about touched bottom...
...have yet to increase their buying. Said Phelps Dodge's President Robert G. Page: "There has been more buying in two or three days, but this in itself is not evidence of a pickup in consumer demand. More likely such buying is speculative. It is premature to predict a rise in producers' prices...