Word: predictableness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Labor's Callaghan, 67, and Conservative Leader Margaret Thatcher, 53, have squared off for an election campaign that is already regarded as perhaps the most important since 1945, when a massive Labor victory ushered in the welfare state. If the Tories win, as the polls now predict, Britain will gain not only its first woman Prime Minister, but a government whose resoundingly conservative views will run counter to the whole leftward drift of British politics since the end of World...
...Cambodia to the north. According to Agence France-Presse Correspondent Jean Thoraval, who recently visited Viet Nam's northern frontier, thousands of militiamen and soldiers have taken up positions in the lush valleys and mountains adjoining the 735-mile-long border with China. Thoraval said Vietnamese officials openly predict a resumption of fighting within six months to a year...
...former Texas Governor has got off to such a fast start that he has become Reagan's principal rival for the nomination in a race that most political experts predict will be settled in the early state primaries. The first is in New Hampshire, eleven months from now. Last week Connally, accompanied by Wife Nellie and a van of political reporters, made his first foray into the state since announcing his candidacy. In speeches and press conferences, he called for new decisive leadership to rescue the U.S. from the grasp of oil sheiks and end the dollar...
...that Edsel would eventually become chief; yet even though the Ford family owns 40% of the voting stock, it is by no means certain that there is an Edsel in Ford's future. Said Henry II, as Edsel listened impassively in the audience: "It is very difficult to predict for a young man who is 30 what his situation is going to be when...
That sort of dilution of the Freudian creed is already far advanced, and some critics predict that classical psychoanalysis will soon be extinct. The 1976 survey by the American Psychoanalytic Association showed that 70% of its members' patients were already receiving some kind of therapy other than psychoanalysis. Since there is no agreement on what works, Freudians?along with neo-Freudians, psychologists, counselors and Pop therapists?are all increasingly eclectic, borrowing bits and pieces of one another's methods. Even at hospitals still dominated by Freudian theory, psychiatric residents now get far more training in neurology, biochemistry, hypnosis and behavior...