Word: predict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Muskie bill will fare in the House-Senate Conference Committee. The House has already passed a bill generally weaker than Muskie's. His bill faces rough going in the Conference Committee because of its steep price tag and its potential impact on the auto industry. Insiders predict a compromise bill that will keep most of the stiff air-quality requirements for industry in general, while easing up on Detroit's deadline...
...plastic art, and musicians also must be plastic. Conducting has come far from the day when the first conductor beat time with a large wooden staff. Each of the conductors we have recently lost added something to the art, contributed something to its future. None of them, however, could predict where the art would go after their deaths. The future of the art is in new hands, in the hands of men who will have to live up and add to the tradition and the greatness of Barbirolli and Szell...
Insurance men can calculate with reasonable accuracy the risk of crashes from aircraft failure, pilot error or weather. But hijacking is so new that insurers do not yet have enough experience to predict its probable frequency. Last week airline offices round the world were stunned by rumors that Lloyd's underwriters were canceling coverage for hijackings-reports that Lloyd's vigorously denied. What was happening was that Lloyd's members were taking advantage of their options to raise "war risk" insurance premiums by 25% to 100% because of the increasing haz ards. Such action comes...
Unemployment, now 5% of the labor force, stands at a five-year peak, and many experts predict a small additional rise this fall. Among those most affected are young people, who face difficulty getting hired at all. One unexpected result is that the Marines are attracting higher-quality volunteers. "They get out of college and can't find a job, so they join," says General Lewis Walt, assistant commandant. "We hope we can keep some of them...
...blight will affect the retail price of corn-fed animals. Housewives are likely to find chicken prices rising in about five or six months. The record numbers of pigs already fattened may actually depress pork prices this winter and next spring, but agronomists predict that higher feed costs could drive up the price of bacon and other cuts of pork by next fall. Beef prices could also rise next fall...