Word: predict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still be foiled by innovative measures. West Germany, for instance, has developed a new system, known as Zielfahndung (target search): teams of police officers select groups of suspects from computer rosters and follow them to learn habits, weaknesses, friends and hangouts, to the point that they can almost predict what the suspects can do or intend to do. As a result, since 1971, police have arrested more than 200 people suspected of being terrorists...
...developed a tank that uses common salt to store for long periods heat collected by solar panels. Along with Owens-Illinois, G.E. is also working on advanced vacuum-tube rooftop solar collectors that double efficiency and cut costs in half. Exxon and Mobil are experimenting with photovoltaics, which they predict could be cost-effective by 1985. Martin Marietta and McDonnell Douglas, using aerospace technology, are now studying ways of building economical solar furnaces...
...wake of the Corporation's report, the events of the upcoming days are practically impossible to predict. Students have exhausted traditional means of protest, apparently to no avail. We hope that non-violent protest will continue; whatever transpires, however, the Corporation will have only itself to blame...
That solitude is threatened by the Whitney exhibition, and Steinberg views the glare of attention with a carefully nurtured indifference. "I would like," he says opaquely, "to retrospect the retrospective." But the crowds that arrive to inspect the Inspector will, one may predict, come to laugh and stay to think; for this show sets before us one of the most intriguing and complex intellects in art today...
...would have taken a very keen student of the game to predict that the wiry young South African with the ungainly swing, who missed the cut in his first Masters back in 1957, would go on to become the fourth man in the history of golf to win all four major tournaments...