Word: predict
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...number of Harvard pre-medical students comes despite increasingly intense competition for a limited number of places at the 180 American medical schools. Nearly 15 per cent of the medical school applicants in the class of 1970 were turned down at all their choices. Pre-medical advisors predict that figure will increase...
...predict how effective our plans will be, but this time we do have something ready so that we won't be caught off guard," Harrison said yesterday...
GOVERNMENT and private studies predict that white-collar jobs will occupy more than half the U.S. labor force by 1980, compared with just over a third in 1950 and 43% in 1960. Among the 15 million new jobs expected to become available in the present decade, about a third will call for professional or technical skills. Because of increasing mechanization, the number of agricultural workers will decline 21%, leaving only 2.7% of the labor force on the farm...
...They will predict a sweet delight...
...leading manufacturers are considering still another change. Chicago's Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co., the largest chewing-gum maker, is one of the few producers to have kept the price of its basic five-stick pack at a nickel. Market analysts predict that the company will soon raise its prices, perhaps shifting to an eight-stick pack for a dime. On the strength of such forecasts, Wrigley's stock one day last week jumped more than nine points...