Word: predict
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...discussions yesterday with Charles P. Whitlock, acting Dean of the College, Dean Dunlop and Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University. Epps said he found that most questions concerned what he termed "practical steps to predict the number of people who would come to the convention and measures to be taken when the predetermined ceiling on attendance is reached...
...days of Chile's popular government are numbered, I say that they can swallow their tongues." So recently declared Chilean President Salvador Allende Gossens, the first Marxist head of state to win office through a free election. Nonetheless, wagging tongues inside and out of Chile continue to predict doom for Allende's 14-month-old Popular Unity coalition. Their predictions may be premature, but Chile's economic problems are steadily worsening, and the opposition forces of the Christian Democrats and the rightist National Party are increasing their attacks on Allende, whose popularity has fallen in recent weeks...
...question Meadows had to answer was: How long can population and industrialization continue to grow on this finite planet? Unlike the doomsday ecologists who predict that man will drown in pollution or starve because of overpopulation, Meadows' system concludes that the depletion of nonrenewable resources will probably cause the end of the civilization enjoyed by today's contented consumer...
...educated guessers predict that the Supreme Court is not likely now to decree the arrival of that day-at least for murder -though death for rape may fall...
Students are responding to the harsh new world of job scarcity in several ways. Most placement officers predict that a larger proportion of bachelor's degree recipients this June will elect to go on to graduate school. The recruiting drought has also produced a new institution in post-graduation planning: the breather year, during which graduates take an extended break before finding a job or continuing their education. Some temporary dropouts travel abroad, others take undemanding jobs as cab drivers, ski patrollers or bartenders to help unwind from the pressures of college life. At Dartmouth, 18% of graduating seniors...