Word: predict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although unwilling to predict the team's success in other single races, Parker did say that from its vantage point of being National titleholder, the team "certainly should finish well," particularly if a number of new freshmen and sophomores join the Yacht Club...
Besides potential reformers and repeaters, the system of predictive devices will, according to the Gluecks, point out children who are likely to get into trouble with the police, criminals who are likely to make trouble in prison, criminals who are most likely to commit new crimes if released, and delinquents and criminals who are likely to reform. If the tables continue to predict accurately, prison officials, social workers and clinicians will be able to isolate and help potential criminals before they become serious threats to society...
Despite the enormous growth of giant corporations, which pessimists predict will kill off small companies, the U.S. now has a third more independent businesses than it had at the end of World War II. They are growing faster than the population; the ratio of business enterprises to the general population is one-fifth higher than...
...White House for whatever Khrushchev might bring. "The choice before world leaders is momentous," he said in a 15-minute TV talk to the nation. "It is my profound hope that some real progress will be forthcoming, even though no one would be so bold as to predict such an outcome. In this connection I know that neither America nor her allies will mistake good manners and candor for weakness; no principle or fundamental interest will be placed upon any auction block." Then the President, a modest man whose strength lies in the fact that he is not enigmatic...
...school exists only in model form in the office of Architecture Professor Marvin E. Goody, who heads an M.I.T. team working on the project under a grant from Monsanto Chemical Co. Goody cannot yet predict how much a full-scale model would cost. But it could be planned in one-third the time needed for designing conventional schools, and built twice as fast...