Word: predict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...regarding admission to the Harvard Medical School erroneously reported that "almost 6,000 applications will be field this year for the 140 places in the class of 1976." The fact is that the Office for Admission has received 6,000 requests for applications. There is no way to accurately predict how many of those will actually be submitted by November 1, the deadline for the filling of applications...
Even without such aid from the enemy, Nixon's political-economic prospects are substantially improving. Many economists, including Democrats, predict that national production will jump by a historically high $100 billion or so next year and that the jobless rate will drop about a point, to 5%. Whether these forecasts come true will depend largely on Nixon's success in inspiring confidence within the nation?confidence that his wage-price restraints are fair and that they will work, so that consumers' dollars will no longer be ruthlessly chewed up by inflation...
Geysers may even predict major quakes that will occur thousands of miles away. In the early 1960s, for example, Old Faithful was spewing forth once every 67 minutes. But in 1963 its rate increased to once every 65½ minutes. Then in 1964 it abruptly slowed down again. To Rinehart, that variation in Old Faithful's timing seems intimately connected with Alaska's destructive Good Friday quake...
...along" is the major pastime: for it also fills much of the days that are shown. And getting along in the Britain of Sunday Bloody Sunday means to cope with institutions which press people into patterns, with crowds whose mass indifference breeds indifferent hate, with daily news bulletins which predict national disaster in stentorian tones of doom. (Seeing the film in the U.S. makes the voicing of Eden-like attitudes towards America seem an additional cruelty). If muted passions give the characters their interest, the way they react to dulling workday situations reveals their depths...
...remarks were published. He was later chided by White House Assistant Peter Flanigan, not for holding the view but because he let a newsman overhear him. This spring Sidney Jones, a professor from the University of Michigan on loan to the Council of Economic Advisers, refused to predict an economic surge based on a one-month rise in industrial production. He was then called in by White House Special Assistant Charles Colson, who demanded, "Why don't you get on the team?" Since then Jones has returned to his university post. Even Paul McCracken, the President's chief...