Word: predict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...though, is the "winner's bus" attitude. Like bees to honey, journalists flock to a winner; it is both glamorous and exciting to herald the victor's progress. Crouse suggests that this feeling unconsciously prompts reporters to fashion their subject into a winner, to write stories that too exuberantly predict his success. Sometimes they are left in the lurch, like the disillusioned reporters who roseately optimized Muskie's rortune but suddenly discovered that the bus had run aground without warning...
...awesome potential of journalistic influence. Crouse fully realizes the power of the press. He relates several stories like that of a Rowland Evans-Robert Novak piece which "helped kill McGovern in Omaha." There is a self-fulfilling nature to a reporter's prophecies, that they not only predict but determine the people's preference...
...refineries to cut production of gasoline in order to shift more capacity to heating oil and products for industry. Still, gasoline consumption will not have to be reduced 30%, as the Administration once feared. Supplies to gas stations instead will be cut 20% below expected demand. Simon continues to predict that voluntary conservation measures will lower consumption sufficiently. In fact, though, such measures as gasless Sundays and lower speed limits so far have reduced gasoline use only 7.2%. Simon himself warns that the appearance of "three-or four-hour lines" at gas pumps could force actual rationing, and such lines...
...high might natural gas prices go? Some economists predict prices of 600 to 700 per 1,000 cu. ft. Another indication comes from agreements that U.S. companies have made with Algerian producers to manufacture liquefied natural gas and ship it in special tankers to the East Coast. Estimated price to the consumer: about $1-or almost 500% more than a householder now pays. As chances of saving the last remaining fuel bargain dwindle, the lesson is doubly clear: the era of cheap energy is indeed fast drawing to a close...
...company free to operate in all nine Common Market countries under a single set of incorporation rules) must establish a board on which one-third of the directors will represent labor, another third will speak for shareholders, and the remaining third will be chosen by the first two groups. Predictably, corporate leaders have been horrified. Even in Germany, some heads of major corporations predict that giving labor an equal voice in company planning will lead only to endless deadlock, with the worker-directors vetoing everything that the shareholder-directors want to do, and vice versa...