Word: predict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there to stimulate the economy, presumably to a degree so judicious that further inflation would be controlled. A budget, however, is only a plan and a set of assumptions. Nixon, to his possible future regret, bases his projections on a steeper upturn in the economy than most independent experts predict (see BUSINESS...
Since "this is essentially a South Vietnamese land operation," he said, he could not predict what effect it would have on American withdrawal...
Repaying by Tithe. One widely discussed version of the plan would first be offered to graduate students, who are better financial risks because their future incomes are easier to predict than those of undergraduates. Whether a student's family were rich or poor, he could borrow up to $10,000, repaying each $1,000 at the modified tithe of .45% of his adjusted gross income. After 30 years, he would stop paying, whether or not his loan had been fully retired...
...would not have taken a planning genius to predict the result when Santa Barbara quadrupled its enrollment in ten years. Unable to get federal loans fast enough for building dormitories on campus, the university let students live in Isla Vista. The sleepy beach town became the home of 7,400 Santa Barbara students-54% of the enrollment -plus 4,000 nonstudents. The population density in I.V.'s half square mile is the highest in California. Two-thirds of the inhabitants are under...
...cheek. Ali started to lunge at Oscar. "Why you so nerbous?" said the Argentine. "You afraid Oscar and his beeg muscles?" Ali: "You're not good enough to touch me." Oscar: "Not good? Me white, you black. You smell. Why you no use perfume?" Ali: "Never predict on me. Never do that, you hear?" Oscar: "Why you no go in Army? You chicken? Cheep, cheep, cheep." Ali again reached for Oscar. "Don't touch me," warned Bonavena, "or I kill...