Word: predict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...toward the star's center of gravity. If the star is massive enough, the imploding gases gather such momentum as they fall that they virtually crush themselves out of existence at the stellar center. Using the formulas of Einstein's general theory of relativity, more recent theorists predict that as the star shrinks toward oblivion, the familiar rules of physics may be violated. Its mass becomes infinitely dense, yet occupies no space. Its gravitational pull becomes so intense that no light or other radiation can escape from it. Thus the star cannot be detected by conventional observations...
...those young enough to be considered serious contenders for leadership are concerned, no one can predict exactly how they would behave once the power was finally in their hands. Alexander Dub?ek, for example, had no reputation for liberalism before he came to power in Prague. By training and temperament, Mazurov, Shelepin and the others appear no more inventive or flexible than Brezhnev...
...Soviet Union has no machinery to ensure a smooth succession. Theoretically, of course, any member of the Politburo can be voted out of office by the Central Committee, but for that to happen would require a major upheaval. Nor can anyone predict with certainty who will emerge as the next party boss?or when. Perhaps it will be a now faceless regional bureaucrat or young technocrat whose name today is unfamiliar in the West. More likely, it will be someone who is not yet in his 60s but is already positioned in the upper reaches of the power structure. There...
...success of this new approach - whether it is a cause or an effect of the split with Cleaver - is hard to predict. The current issue of the Panther paper features five Party leaders declaring their long-standing devotion to Newton, but there are reports that Party chapters around the country are dividing into two camps...
...difficult to predict the lines along which the Party may divide, or how much violence may accompany the split, just as it is hard to pinpoint its ideological or practical basis...