Word: predict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Administration officials bullishly predict that the food and feed prices will ease off by autumn because of 1) the export controls, and 2) an expected rise in this year's output of soybeans and other feed. Better late than never, the Administration this year freed up more land for planting. Only if the Government continues to expand domestic farm production will the nation be able to beat the high cost of eating-and help meet the needs of an increasingly hungry world...
Phase Outs. Harder hit are farmers, who have to get gas delivered to them; many predict that a shortage will impair their ability to harvest crops this fall. Truckers are also hurting. Chicago's Spector Freight System Inc., for example, expects to spend $1,000,000 more this year because of a 7?-a-gallon jump in the wholesale price of diesel fuel. Before the freeze, prices were rising at the corner gas station as well; in Boston they went up 2? a gallon in the past week. The Society of Independent Gasoline Marketers of America, whose members...
...have blossomed with a bumper crop of stickers, buttons, posters and one-liners: FOUR MORE YEARS-AND TWO OFF FOR GOOD BEHAVIOR; FREE THE WATERGATE 500; NIXON BUGS ME. Even old 1968 campaign buttons reading "Nixon's the One" have been sported for possible misinterpretation. In California, wags predict that a well-known ice-cream company is about to introduce a new flavor called "impeach-mint." Midwesterners say that "even John Wayne has been implicated-they found hoof-prints outside the Watergate...
Constantine: His power is based on violence, pressure and fear. He uses the usual apparatus of dictatorship to remain in power. But I am certain his power will be totally eroded, though I cannot predict just how it will...
...things are certain: Harvard will have to cut back on some of its current programs, and Faculty members will make certain that merit scholarship programs are not among the losers. One can also predict that Union members--if they retain a voice, which is still an open question--will adamantly oppose any policy that shifts power over limited funds to department chairmen and those who immediately supervise graduate students...