Word: predictableness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...roommate if you can borrow his pocket calculator. You'll probably need it as you peruse this column, because Mark Zbikowski and Tim Matthews aren't your average pigskin prophets. While members of the Cube sit in silent revery and appeal to divine inspiration when it comes to making predictions, Zbikowski and Matthews use the Science Center computer and a chain of statistical formulas to predict the outcomes of college games across the nation...
...Administration contends that fuel costs to the consumer must go up and business cannot expect to take all the increase in profits. The outcome, so far, is a debilitating uncertainty: the House passed Carter's program almost intact, the Senate dismembered it and no one can now predict what compromise may emerge from the conference committee. Meanwhile, businessmen apprehensively note that polls indicate that Carter has yet to convince the public that there is any energy crisis at all. Says Herbert Schmertz, vice president of Mobil Oil Corp.: "There is no consensus in this country for any energy policy...
Inflation. Despite blips up and down, the rate of price increases has been pretty much stuck at around 6% annually since the spring of 1975, and most economists predict that it will continue at about that pace through next year; some recent easing has been illusory because it has reflected a drop in food prices that will not last. Businessmen complain that Carter seems to have no idea how to bring the rate down; the "anti-inflation" policy he announced last April turned out to be largely a list of regulatory and review measures...
Anyway, that brings me to the second reason for writing. You see, I've got a problem, and it's not the type that a bowl of chicken soup can solve. And no, I don't need money. Every Saturday I predict Ivy League football games in The Crimson. What? You haven't gotten any Crimsons this fall? That's funny, because no one around here has either...
...motion picture industry has reverted to its conventional production methods, and work like Short Eyes must once again swim upstream to gain widespread attention. A sleeper must now feature something special to succeed, and Young's new film regrettably comes up short in enough areas to safely predict it will not make much of a dent in the industry, artistically or financially...