Word: predictableness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...added that although no one can predict the course that the next Pope will take, population control "remains one of the areas that are ripe for a change" of Church policy
...early 1979 and lead the economy into recession. Detroit's automakers, most of whom had underestimated the strength of this year's sales, almost unanimously expect a repeat of 1978's performance next year. Real estate brokers, pointing to high demand from the now grown "baby boom" generation, predict a banner year in 1979. Yet many economists agree with Vice President Ted Tung of Continental Illinois Bank, who warns, "There will be a substantial slowing of consumer spending in the next six months...
...people have died in the Dallas-Fort Worth area because of the heat wave, most of them elderly poor who live in homes without air conditioning. Weather forecasters predict the heat wave will continue this week, breaking a record of 25 consecutive days of 100° temperatures set in 1952. Although health authorities are warning area residents to stay out of the midday sun, joggers still pack city parks at noon. Golfers also show up on the courses. But they are playing with a new rule: the ball can be moved without penalty if it falls into a crack opened...
...computer predict suicide attempts? Better yet, can it do so as successfully as a therapist? On the basis of preliminary tests at the University of Wisconsin Medical School, the answer is a tentative...
That conclusion was reached after hundreds of depressed patients had been interviewed by a computer programmed by Psychiatrist John Greist and David Gustafson, professor of preventive medicine. In 72 of the cases, the computer predictions were compared with those made by therapists in traditional face-to-face interviews. The computer correctly identified the three patients who attempted suicide within 48 hours after their interviews. The therapists failed to predict any of the three attempts. One patient was about to be released when the computer determined that he had a gun, bullets and a precise suicide plan. In long-range predictions...