Word: predict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Matthew Feinberg, staff counsel for the CLUM, said he could not predict precisely when further action on the case would come. He explained that no action could be taken until the U.S. Marshal served the complaint to the defendants, a procedure which normally takes no more than ten days. Once the complaint is served, the defendants have 20 days to respond...
Agronomists have managed to calculate and predict crop disasters, but when it comes to urban blights, no one has devised a coherent method for measuring them, let alone overcoming them. Poverty, crime, narcotics, pollution and sheer physical decay are the new locusts, as terrifyingly confusing as Egypt's plagues...
...supposed to be towers of strength-and yet the child finds adults are fearful too. Home, the child's symbol of safety, has toppled in his mind." Sudden disaster, Stainbrook concludes, "destroys one's confidence in the orderliness of the world; people feel they can't predict their own futures...
Then comes the end, and that is anybody's guess. Ali's for example: Five minutes before the fight, he plans to remove a sheet of paper from a sealed envelope inscribed: THE SECRET OF MUHAMMAD ALI. Then, while the closed-circuit TV cameras zero in, he will predict the round in which Frazier will fall. That, of course, is not Joe's style at all. But his prediction makes more sense. "I wouldn't really want to say who will win," he says. "But one thing I do know. It will be one hell of a fight...
...Jesuit schools and Temple University. Now he lives in Vermont, which he calls "the last frontier in the east." He intends to keep up the writing pace as long as he has something to say, and he is fatalistic about how long that may be. It is foolhardy to predict a young writer's future, but if burgeoning energy and imagination count, McHale's rich shanty Irish may be around as long as Faulkner's Snopeses...