Word: predict
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James S. Duesenberry, Maier Professor of Money and Banking, said yesterday that most economists were expecting "at least another 7 per cent" increase in the consumer price index, but he added that it is difficult to predict...
...imports of crude into the U.S. declined by 10% from the week before, and are now running 22% behind the early autumn. Treasury Secretary George Shultz last week said that Middle East troop disengagement (see THE WORLD) would lead to a relaxation of that embargo; but he did not predict when. Saudi officials have declared that they would keep it clamped on until the Israelis agreed to a complete pullback behind 1967 borders. Simon expects that if there is a political solution to the embargo, "there will be compelling reasons to roll the price [of oil] back." Yet even...
Properly programmed, the computer can plot the trajectory of a rocket, keep track of a store's inventory, correlate census data and help predict weather more accurately. But can it be trusted to make the kinds of life-and-death decisions that doctors do? The answer may be yes, according to a team of scientists from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston. The researchers report in the American Journal of Medicine that they have taught a computer to exercise virtually the same clinical judgment that a physician must use in choosing a form...
Broken down into categories, the results fill 1,000 pages of computer printouts which are designed to help predict how types of people from the particular community might be expected to react as jurors. There are, says Schulman, significant regional differences. In Harrisburg, polling indicated that women would be more friendly to the defense than men. They promised to be harsher in Gainesville, and the same as men in St. Paul. Following their predictive profiles, the defense looked in Harrisburg for working-class Lutherans, Roman Catholics and Brethren, a pacifist sect in the area. In Gainesville, defense lawyers tried...
...aggravated alarm to sour skepticism. The nation is being swept by rumors of tankers idling at sea to await higher prices before unloading, of refineries bulging with reserve stocks, of price-gouging from dock to gas pump. Forgetting how much their lives have already changed-who would have dared predict a year ago that 68° thermostat settings and gasless Sundays would so quickly become routine?-many Americans are asking not how the nation has managed to avoid the worst but whether there really is any energy shortage worth worrying about. Growing numbers are voicing suspicion that the whole emergency...