Word: predict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Raise I.Q.s. A brilliant and eccentric man, who, despite disclaimers, still controls the cult, Hubbard was once a successful science-fiction writer. In 1949, he seemed to predict his own future in a jocular speech to a convention of fellow authors: "Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wanted to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion...
...committee's refusal not only defies the interests of this particular bill's supporters; it establishes a dangerous precedent for stifling debate on any subject. For although the state's House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed the extension of 842, and although observers predict the same outcome if the bill could ever reach the Senate for a vote, state-wide rent control will die next week because this committee is opposed to simply airing the issue. There is no reason to believe that the committee is acting on a mere whim. And there is no reason to believe that the progressive...
...Finance Authority is specifically exempted from control. But arguments presented by tenant groups from subsidized housing in the city, and especially their tales of $250 monthly rents for "low-cost" one-bedroom apartments, convinced the council to include FHA and MHFA housing in their plan. Most observers and lobbyists predict that this part of the Cambridge petition will get the most resistance from the legislature...
...time are able to recoup, regroup and alter strategy. Yet almost every decision in the Bayh campaign was dictated by money constraints and made so late that they were binding for the duration. There was no flexibility, and not even Boston's political Vince Lombardi, Mr. Walsh, can predict the future with perfection. It was lack of time, not bad decisions, that...
...politics of the grad school, which will be composed of 40 per cent social and natural science courses and 20 per cent medical services, pose no such problems. And he doesn't seem too worried about preserving free speech within the class room. "No prudent person would attempt to predict how individuals will behave in a decade from now when the university will be operating in full capacity." It would be the height of folly to say how things will be in Iran, as it would have been to foresee what it would be like starting a school in India...