Word: predict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...defined as those things that keep life from becoming too bleak. There are songs (performed by the Jailbird Quartet) and moments of friendship; survival requires emotional as well as physical effort in a place like Soweto. These moments of beauty underline the basic structure of life there: the songs predict the day of liberation, and friendships are based on recognition of a common struggle. But they also keep the play from becoming a simple polemical statement. politics and art usually do not mix well: often, the individual stories overwhelm the politics, or the politics overwhelm the subtleties. South Africa...
...Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) funded a series of Medical School experiments in the early '60's on Boston-area college students to predict the "hypnotizability" of individuals, the director of the research said yesterday...
Interest Rates. Higher demand for loans and Federal Reserve Board efforts to prevent inflationary growth of the U.S. money supply are pushing up lending charges. The bank "prime" rate on business loans has jumped from 6¼% at the start of 1977 to 8% now; some Wall Streeters predict it will reach 8¾% or even 9% by year's end. The rise makes it more expensive for consumers and businesses to buy or build with borrowed cash. It could put an end to the housing boom by causing savers to pull their money out of savings banks and savings and loan...
...question had just been asked: Did he predict failure for the Jerusalem talks? As Jordan's King Hussein was about to answer, a door to his office in Amman's Basman Palace flew open and Abdul Hamid Sharaf, Chief of the Royal Court, burst in with a message. Scanning the note that had been handed to him, the King turned to his interviewer, TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn. "I suppose," said Hussein with a grim smile, "we should be speaking in the past tense." The King read the dispatch aloud: President Anwar Sadat had withdrawn his delegation...
Postel could not predict how many students would obtain excuses this year. He said," We don't keep day by day records of excuses. We add them...