Word: predict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...obviously very difficult to interpret or predict the duration of given political trends and cultural styles. To forecast such developments is similar to dealing with the weather. The best prediction about tomorrow's weather is that it will be the same as today's, but whatever phase we are in, a heat wave, a cold wave, a rainy season, this, too, is sure to end and be followed by a very different type of climate. In politics, conditions which encourage the growth of right-wing or left-wing movements, or of relative stability and little political interest, also last...
...billion. But the new worries about retaliation are probably too late. Mills has been concerned lately about soothing protectionists' fears that his heart is not really in the trade bill, which now informally bears his name. In a recent speech he proclaimed that "Congress is not bluffing. I predict that the Trade Act of 1970 will pass by a big majority...
...emotional factor today is hard to predict, but it would seem to be as even as the teams themselves. The profusion of similarities is eerie, much as it was two years...
...returns from the football team, the ticket office was still selling seats. Trying to explain the situation, Page said, "You can be completely sold out up to a few minutes before you close and you can still end up with a handful. But these are things you can never predict...
...informal conference was held in which both sides restated their cases, and the first hearings began on November 9. George W. Lunn, director of Personnel at the Medical Center, said yesterday that it was impossible to predict when the situation would finally be resolved...