Word: predict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jimmy Connors' skill at tennis is normally exceeded only by his preening selfesteem. In the preliminary rounds of the men's singles at Wimbledon, Defending Champion Connors, 22, rated No. 1 in the world, had not dropped a set, prompting him to predict smugly that last week's final would be "just another day at the office." Like Connors, the odds makers figured the match would merely be a mildly interesting footnote to tennis history, and that only because his opponent, Arthur Ashe, 31, was the first black to reach the men's finals in Wimbledon...
Nobody is smart enough to predict correctly all, or even most of the time, but it could be that a group of expert forecasters would give the capitalist economy valuable early warnings and prevent some unpleasant surprises. The deeper question is whether policy should be guided by the predictions of a national planning body or by the forecasts of tens of thousands of entrepreneurs and corporate managers in a free market. The planners, their supporters say, would consult with businessmen. Moreover they would merely aim to identify the industries that should expand fast in order to avert shortages, and determine...
ALTHOUGH IT is impossible to predict what will happen in the next few months on Mission Hill, several possibilities could occur. The BRA will probably hold as many community meetings as possible until it determines it can go ahead and hold a board meeting on the project without running headlong into violent community opposition. At that point, largely because the Mission Hill opposition lacks clout with City Hall in this highly political process, the BRA can in the long run give Harvard the go-ahead to break ground...
...concerts are fun. People augh as much as they shriek. ("If they scream," he says in his self-mocking way, "it is probably in horror.") Fans eagerly await his first appearance onstage to see what outrageous variations he will work on his image that night. No one can predict which of his 200 pairs of glasses (total value: $40,000) he may wear. He has three pairs that are mink-lined, another with 57 tiny light bulbs that spell out ELTON, yet another shaped like musical notes linked by a jeweled bridge bar. Most gorgeous...
...will continue and that the market is not just enjoying a temporary spurt before the Dow worries itself back down to the 500s. Warnings that prices will collapse again can still be heard along Wall Street, chiefly among chartists. But they are outnumbered by newly optimistic money managers who predict that the industrial average will at least break through 900 by year's end, though probably not without a downward stumble of 10% to 25% in stock values at some point along the way. Value Line's Bernhard expects the Dow to reach the 900-950 level...