Word: predict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still too early to predict the outcome of perhaps the most important topic of all-the reorganization of Czechoslovakia's 1,500,000-member Communist Party (in a population of 14 million). According to present plans, all membership cards will be withdrawn and, after a gigantic review of every member's behavior during the Dubček era, new ones issued. Who will get the new cards? The ultraconservatives argue that the party should expel anyone who supported Dubček. That, of course, would reduce the party to a skeleton. Echoing Huáak, the party paper...
Economists are reluctant to predict the profit picture for all of 1970, but early estimates call for a drop of between 8% and 10% in pretax profits. President Nixon's budget message assumes that pretax profits this year will be $89 billion, down 5.6% from an estimated $94.3 billion in 1969. The earnings picture seems worst for auto, chemical, sulfur mining, metal fabricating and television manufacturing companies. On the other hand, companies in cosmetics, food, soft drinks, brewing, office equipment and nonferrous metals are believed to have good prospects...
...Solomon declined to predict the effect of menger on the status of women at Harvard. "We are talking about historical problems," she said. "Change doesn't come overnight-it's an evolution. I knew Radcliffe before we had joint instruction...
...activists staged the first of a series of major environmental teach-ins that will climax in a nationwide teach-in on April 22. In varying degrees, the once sheltered ecologists have become ardent advocates of seemingly radical views. They sometimes sound like new Jeremiahs. They do not hesitate to predict the end of the world, or at least the end of a life with quality. Yet they hold out hope too. "We are in a period of grace," says Commoner. "We have the time?perhaps a generation?in which to save the environment from the final effects of the violence...
...predict the likely 1970 performance of the U.S. economy, IBM executives last week set their computers to work. They fed in the latest economic statistics and some assumptions, and the computers came out with what sounded like a weather-bureau forecast of precipitation probabilities. In IBM's book, the four possibilities, and the chances of them...