Word: predict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...settled before work can resume. As of last week only about 25% of some 39,000 local demands had been resolved, and they were the least difficult ones. An optimist in Detroit nowadays is someone who still expects the G.M. workers to return well before Christmas; the pessimists predict that the walkout will last until early next year...
Hope of Profits. Theoretically, the new rail corporation is supposed to earn a profit, like Comsat. Private railroaders consider this idea ludicrous, and predict that Railpax will be forced to turn to Congress for more subsidy within a year or two. Even if their freight operations are included, the much-admired nationalized railroads of Western Europe and Japan run deeply in the red. Railpax backers count on managerial innovations to entice more riders aboard trains. The average passenger may find conditions much the same for a considerable time. Railpax will pay the private railroads to operate its trains; they will...
...Market, and the entry of Britain would open the Continent wider to the City of London's powerful banks. Europeans see multinational combines as the logical way to compete. Leaders of Lyonnais and Commerzbank say that their association is open to other partners, and some bankers predict that Dutch, Belgian and Italian banks may join...
...campaign, not as canvassers or volunteers, but as an issue. The deaths at Kent State, the wave of bombings, the Weatherman fall offensive have all provided grist for the conservative mill. All across the country liberal candidates are shying away from defending students. No one can really predict the effects of an Agnew tongue lashing on a candidate and liberals in general are taking no chances. Check out the store front office of Ted Kennedy in Boston if you don't believe...
CALIFORNIA: Former song and dance man George Murphy is running neck and neck with a young and vigorous liberal Democrat, Rep. John V. Tunney. It is impossible to predict anything, much less a political election, in the land of Reagans and Mansons, yet Tunney must be given the edge. He is running a strong campaign against the 68-year-old Murphy, whose campaigning is hampered by his voice problem (he has had several major operations on his throat and is only barely audible...