Word: predict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rally on the Ellipse and march down Pennsylvania Avenue. The National Peace Action Coalition, heir to the Moratorium supporters of the late '60s, will stage speeches from antiwar Senators and Congressmen, folk singing and the march. Organizers predict several hundred thousand for the April 24 demonstration; even with the Government expecting no more than 50,000, it is certain to be the largest showing of the three-week period. - Workshops and lobbying at various Government agencies by the People's Coalition for Peace and Justice. Protesters plan to enter Government office buildings-the Justice Department, HEW, Selective Service...
Such experiments lead Herman Kahn of the Hudson Institute to predict that by the year 2000, people will be able to wear chest consoles with ten levers wired to the brain's pleasure centers. Fantasies Kahn: "Any two consenting adults might play their consoles together. Just imagine all the possible combinations: 'Have you ever tried ten and five together?' couples would ask. Or, 'How about one and one?' But I don't think you should play your own console; that would be depraved...
...current example illustrates the problem. Amniocentesis can now quite accurately predict whether a fetus is mongoloid; women carrying such abnormal fetuses are now encouraged, where it is legal, to have abortions. Already a number of medical planners are pointing up the cost-effectiveness of abortion in those cases. Unless the birth rate of mongoloid children is reduced, their care by 1975 may well cost some $1.75 billion nationally...
...Still, the deep-seated problems about the dollar's role as the world's key currency remain unresolved. Says Yale Economist Robert Triffin, a prominent monetary expert: "We are in the middle of an agonizing reappraisal-and total revamping-of the international monetary system." No one will predict exactly where it will lead, but almost all experts sense some uneasy times ahead...
Both Fairbank and Thomson predict...